Prints

Hong Kong - Panorama of the Town of Victoria; Ball in the City Hall on St Andrew's Day.

The engraving of the Panorama of Hong Hong Kong was taken from a photograph produced by Mr D.K. Griffiths. He also wrote,"The offices of some of the principal merchants occupy the many fine buildings from east to west. The hotels are the Hong Kong - a princely mansion situated close to the Clock Tower - and the Victoria, comfortable and most central, close to the water's edge. A coasting steamer of the Douglas Steamship Company is berthed alongside the wharf, and the foreshore is crowded with cargo boats, sampans, and other native craft, also a number of steam launches for which Hong Kong builders are specially famous. All this is the work of less than half a century. From a barren rock, with a few fishing villages, Hong Kong has grown under our rule to be a most extensive and prosperous colony, with a population of nearly a quarter of a million inhabitants."

Beautifully hand coloured and framed.