Artist / Author / Cartographer:
John Cooke Bourne
Title:
Hong Kong, from a painting by a Chinese artist
Date:
1846
Medium:
lithograph, original hand colour
Size:
38 x 57 cm
Description:
Published by Smith, Elder & Co. 65, Cornhill, London 1846. Standidge & Co., Litho., London.
A beautiful scene of early Hong Kong from North Point. To the left are Jardine Mathesons' godowns and Kellett Island. In the distance a fleet of ships are at anchor beside a newly developing Victoria Town which is sheltered beneath Victoria Peak.
The largest and earliest lithograph to show a newly developing Hong Kong in 1845.
Rare
References
Hong Kong the Changing Scene, No. 15 Hong Kong Museum of Art ,1980.
Not in Chater, Abbey, British Museum or other standard reference works. CC022
References:
Item Code:
P6961
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