View in Hong-Kong - Bungalow of French Admiral in Foreground
I am unsure of the location but I think Garden Road is in the foreground. Does anyone know who the French Admiral was?
After further research I have worked out that this photo is of the Wyndham Street/Arbuthnot Road area taken from junction of Ice House Street/Lower Albert Road, roughly where the FCC is today.
The following building can be seen:
Dent's Bungalow in the lower right with the gatehouse/stab/es/servants quarters lower left. This is the only photo of Dents Bungalow I have seen as the area was redeveloped in the early 1860's. (There are paintings) In the foreground Wyndham Street is seen crossing bottom left.
Top left is a building on the north side of Arbuthnot Road which appears in an 1846 painting. to the right of this building is a house on Caine Road. The two similar buildings on the skyline top centre/right are what I have called No. 5 and No. 8 Chancery lane. Centre right hand side is an unidentified building between Arbuthnot Road and Wyndham Street. possibly a government store or a stables. Just above this building a high wall can be seen which is the boundary wall of Victoria Prison that runs along Chancery Lane
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The French Admiral
Wikipedia says:
In 1860 Felice Beato left the partnership of Robertson & Beato, though Robertson retained use of the name until 1867. Beato was sent from India to photograph the Anglo-French military expedition to China in the Second Opium War. He arrived in Hong Kong in March[18]
So maybe this bungalow was the temporary residence of the French Admiral of that expedition, while in Hong Kong?
Very possible. Any idea of
Very possible. Any idea of location from the buildings shown? i thought perhaps the junction of Garden and Robinson road.
Re: Gate at Garden Road
Hi There,
I wonder if the columns are actually the same ones.
T
Location is Wyndham Street
Location is Wyndham Street/Arbuthnot Road.
The Pagoda shaped roof is Dent's Bungalow ?
The Pagoda shaped roofs is Dent's bungalow ?
Yes.
Yes.
Original source
The J. Paul Getty Museum: http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/104451/felice-beato-view-in-...