Prints

The earliest view of Aberdeen Street just off Hollywood Road.

A vibrant depiction of Aberdeen Street, just below the junction with Hollywood Road in the mid 1840s showing some of the earliest western architecture in the new colony. This charming Street scene shows a boy with a hoop and people intermingling between newly constructed colonial buildings with a distant view of the harbour and Kowloon at the centre of the picture. An East Indiaman appears at anchor beside Chinese junks. Another copy of this lithograph is in the permanent collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. It is illustrated on page 21 in Hong Kong, The Changing Scene, A Record in Art , published by the Urban Council, Hong Kong in 1980.

Murdoch Bruce was an architect - engineer who worked for the Government of Hong Kong constructing the earliest buildings and roads. His title was "Inspector of Buildings and Overseer of Roads for the Hong Kong Administration". This lithograph was done on stone by A. Maclure, Macdonald and Macgregor in London after a drawing by Murdoch Bruce. Andrew Maclure FRGS (1812-1885) was a lithographer from Glasgow who set up business in London. A. Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor were lithographers at 3, Bow Church Yard and later at 20 St Vincent Place, London. They also produced lithographs for Henry Charles Sirr's book, China and the Chinese in 1849.