Sujet

The War in China - Victoria Hong-Kong: Queen's-Road West, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The War in China - Victoria Hong-Kong: Queen's-Road West, 1857. 'The interest attached to the town of Victoria, the capital of Hong-Kong, and the seat of the Colonial Government, has induced us to engrave the accompanying View of a principal street, from an original Sketch...Here the picturesqueness of the large Chinese building in the foreground, with its open bazaars, contrasts strangely with the plainness of the colonial structures beyond it. The labouring classes and small traders are chiefly Chinese, who are ever on the alert for gain. The bazaars invite the passing stranger in every street, and the itinerant artisans go busily tramping in their daily rounds. There are many striking figures among them, as our Artist has shown'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_324

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

57,5Mo (4,6Mo) / 46,4cm x 31,0cm / 5476 x 3667 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building buildings people job architecture shopping shop shops country market China Chinese trade occupation British color colony Hong Kong war harness location century Colonial Britain profession newspapers press concept bazaar B&W street scene engraved engraving street vendor street market street seller Colour 19th century yoke black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector colonialism Illustrated London News Opium Wars street trader TGN wood engraving ILN outside street newspaper Unknown Second Opium War 19th-century