Sujet

The Chinese Question: views of Victoria, the capital of Hong-Kong - the Port and Bay, 1898. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Chinese Question: views of Victoria, the capital of Hong-Kong, 1898. 'The Port and Bay, viewed from Victoria Peak. The + in the picture indicates the Kowloon or Kaulun peninsula, in the Chinese province of Kwangtung, which includes the town of the same name ceded to Great Britain in January 1861. British Kowloon includes a sanatorium for troops and a number of villa residences, besides three docks'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM26A14_246

Model release

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Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

23.3Mo (1.2Mo) / 30.8cm x 19.0cm / 3641 x 2240 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation city sea arts mountain mountains country harbour China art Chinese trade port ship ships British geography Hong Kong location century Britain newspapers press print B&W sailing ship sailing ships 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN Victoria City Victoria Town newspaper photograph landscape Unknown 19th-century The Illustrated London News Partition of China Scramble for China Scramble for Concessions