View of Hong Kong (now Hong Kong, China), Hong Kong harbour and Kowloon Peninsula showing buildings and ships

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

View of Hong Kong (now Hong Kong, China), Hong Kong harbour and Kowloon Peninsula showing buildings and ships

Date:

1870

Description:

- A hand-written table of contents accompanies album PH1981:0620:001-081.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.8 x 27.5 cm secondary support: 52.5 x 36.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1981:0620:050

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Photographs PH1981:0620:049, PH1981:0620:050 and PH1981:0620:051 are adhered to different album pages but form panorama PH1981:0620:049-051. The secondary supports of photographs PH1981:0620:050 and PH1981:0620:051 are adhered together, verso, with white binding tape. Photograph PH1981:0620:049 comprises the left image of the panorama, photograph PH1981:0620:050 comprises the middle image and photograph PH1981:0620:051 comprises the right image. There is white binding tape along the left edge, verso, of the album page for PH1981:0620:049 and along the right edge, verso, of the album page for PH1981:0620:050. The album pages for photographs PH1981:0620:050 and PH1981:0620:051 are detached from the album.

Inscription:

numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, c.r.: "55" numbered and inscribed - on PH1981:0620:051, by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, c.r.: "5" [cut off]; and l.r.: "Hong Kong" [sideways]

Location:

Hong Kong; China;

Subject:

architecture
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ships
buildings
harbour
peninsula

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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