Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Unknown Photographer
Title:
Hong Kong, Queen's Road
Date:
c1895
Medium:
albumen print, colour tinted
Size:
21 x 27.5 cm
Description:
Numbered "72" in pencil, verso.
A view of Queens Road looking west taken from near Duddell Street. Further down the road on the left is the ssign for "...le Sang, Photographer". A busy street with many rickshaws being pulled and parked along the side. Altogether a lively scene.
An unusual hand tinted albumen print which could be considered one of the earliest colour photographs of the Queen's Road.
References:
Item Code:
P6828
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