• Felice Beato (photographer)

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

1870

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

Albumen silver print

comp.: 20.1 x 27.6 cm secondary support: 52.5 x 36.0 cm

PH1981:0620:051

• exterior view

- 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.

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

Hong Kong; China;

• architecture
• topographique

• complex
• ships
• buildings
• harbour
• peninsula