Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Unknown Photographer
Title:
Panorama of Hong Kong
Date:
c1898
Medium:
collotype
Size:
9 x 35.2 cm
Description:
Inscribed on the front below the image, "Juglio 1900 - Dicembre 1901.
Verso - addressed to, "Miss Eugenie Levy, Villa Levy - Porte Nuove 10, Florence".
A view of the waterfront or Praya of Hong Kong in the 1890s. It is after a photograph showing the new Hong Kong Hotel extension c1892, the tall building to the left, but before the Chater reclamation had been completed in 1904.
Rare. One of the earliest postcard panoramas of Hong Kong.
References:
Item Code:
P5284
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