Title

Victoria Peak, Hong-Kong, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Victoria Peak, Hong-Kong, 1857. Engraving from a sketch '...by the late Arthur V. Johns, Esq., H.C.S...[near] the town of Victoria, Island of Hong-Kong...a north-east view of Victoria Peak, 1800 feet high, taken from the Harbour master's Flagstaff, showing Caine's House, late the residence of Governor Sir John F. Davis, Bart. Below is a Chinese Bungalow, the first solid building erected on Hong-Kong as a European residence in 1841, by the present Lieut.-Governor, Col. Caine; to the right, on the slope of the hill, the Magistracy and Prison compound'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A76_403

Model release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

9,5Mb (761,3Kb) / 6,6in x 5,6in / 1970 x 1685 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings town mountain mountains peak China British geography color colony Hong Kong location century empire Britain newspapers press B&W engraved engraving Colour Victoria Peak 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector British Empire geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper landscape Unknown 19th-century Arthur V. Johns Arthur V. Johns Esq. H.C.S. Johns Arthur V.