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Straße in Hongkong Mitte des XIX. Jahrhunderts, 香港, Hong Kong, British colonial era

Street in Hong Kong in the middle of the 19th century.

From a German illustrated book "The XIX century in words and pictures", published around 1900. The caption says "Printed after a water colour painting by Eduard Hildebrand".

This is probably not a real street but the illustrator's impression.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1850
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Early 1840s HK View - who owns it?

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1844

Here's a view of the north shore of HK Island from the 1840s. Does anyone know who owns it?

It appears in in the book "An Illustrated History of Hong Kong" (by Nigel Cameron, 1991).  In the acknowledgement, he credits the source as the Information Services Department (ISD). I've contacted the ISD photo library, the Museum of Art, and the Museum of History, but none of them have this painting in their collections.

Cumming HK 2 det Morrison Hill.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1879
Places shown in this photo: 

Courtesy of Patrick Conner from The Martyn Gregory Gallery.

Detail taken from this painting: http://gwulo.com/atom/20454

Looking west along the north shore

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1879

Courtesy of Patrick Conner from The Martyn Gregory Gallery. He writes:

Attached to this and the following message are some images of that pair of detailed 1879 watercolours by Constance Gordon Cumming, which we were kindly lent back for our exhibition in Exchange Square last November (see our 2014 catalogue) - in case your readers should be interested.  The images of the whole watercolours are based on 25-year-old transparencies, and the colour is wrong, but I took the close-ups recently.

Cumming 1 detail of City Hall.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1879
Places shown in this photo: 

Courtesy of Patrick Conner from The Martyn Gregory Gallery.

Detail cropped from this painting: http://gwulo.com/atom/13844

Cumming HK 1 all.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1879

Courtesy of Patrick Conner from The Martyn Gregory Gallery.

Read more about this painting at: http://gwulo.com/atom/13844

Cumming HK 1 det left margin.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1879

Courtesy of Patrick Conner from The Martyn Gregory Gallery.

Detail cropped from this painting: http://gwulo.com/atom/13844

Cumming HK 1 detail.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1879

Courtesy of Patrick Conner from The Martyn Gregory Gallery.

Detail cropped from this painting: http://gwulo.com/atom/13844

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