Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Collison-Morley, Lieut-Colonel Harold Duke
Title:
Stanley
Date:
1910
Medium:
watercolour
Size:
18 x 11 cm
Description:
Titled lower right, "Stanley. 21-4-10.
A portrait of a sampan lady steering her sampan in Stanley.
Harold Duke Collison-Morley studied art at the Slade School of Art in London and also in Paris before joining the army. He lived and worked in Hong Kong in 1909 and 1910. He produced a series of six lithographs of humourous scenes which were published by the South China Morning Post in 1909. These included, On the Peak Road, Shady Chracters, B'long Hongkong Rickshaw, On The Praya, The Happy Valley.
Lieutenant Colonel Harold Duke Collison-Morley worked in Australia prior to the first world war. He was killed in Flanders at the Battle of Loos in September 1915.He is listed in Guichards book of British Etchers.
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Item Code:
P6873
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