Photographs
Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Afong Lai
Title:
448.- Public Gardens and Government House
Date:
c.1875
Medium:
albumen print
Size:
21 x 27 cms.
Description:
A label below the photograph reads, "No. 448 - This View was taken from Albany Road, on the right the rising ground is East Point, and the space between the extreme edge of East Point and the Mountain in the the distance is called Lyee-Moon-Pass, on the left is Kowloon Peninsula. The building facing the Garden is the Government House."
Hong Kong No. 448. Public Gardens and Government House.
Ref.
Bennett, Terry History of Photography in China, Quaritch, London, 2013. Page 319.
References:
Hacker, Arthur and Wattis Fine Art Hong Kong, A rare photographic record of the 1860s 1997 page 8.
Item Code:
P4001
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