Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Hurley, Robert Crisp
Title:
Hong Kong- No.30-Mount Austin Hotel (1,400 Feet)
Date:
1897
Medium:
albumen print
Size:
10 x 14.8 cm
Description:
A view of the elegant Mount Austin Hotel on the Peak taken by R.C. Hurley at the end of the nineteenth century.
R.C. Hurley was a photographer and publisher. He arrived in Hong Kong on 14th March 1879. As a photographer he produced some attractive publications with pasted -in small albumen prints. These include, Sixty Diamond Jubilee Photographs of Hong Kong in 1897, Sixty Pictures of Canton in 1899 and The Far-East - Sixty Pictures - Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Shanghai, Peking in c.1905.
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Item Code:
P4796
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