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Ancient View of Hong Kong - Original Lithograph - Early 19th Century

Early 19th Century

Ancient View of Canton is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the first half of the 19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper...

Ancient View of Havannah is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the 19th Century. Original Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted in capital letters on the lo...

Ancient View of Peking in China is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the first half of the 19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lo...

Ancient View of Bergen is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the 19th Century. Original Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower margin: Bergen (E...

Description: Antique print titled ‘Chinese Temple Hong-Kong‘. View of the Chinese temple in Hong Kong. This print originates from 'Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron...

Antique print titled 'Faubourg de Yang-fou'. Original old print of the city of Yang-tcheou, in the Province of Che-kian, showing a temple, a monument, a fort, and part of the city wa...

Wonderful image of Macao Fine steel engraving after Purser Published by Fisher. Dated 1832 The measurement given is the paper size Unframed.

The oldest European buildings in China are along the once curved crescent shore of the Praya Grande, where the Portuguese explorers established and fortified their trading foothold with an entire continent. When they arrived in 1553, this small fishing village overlooked by a temple to an ocean goddess immediately became an important cultural center of the world and the stage for initial interactions between the East and West. Ever since, this port has played a role in the cosmopolitan course of world trade. (The harbor is extensively filled in and built upon today.) In this view, more than 300 years after the Dutch established contact in the early 17th Century and western ships first sailed in the harbor, a British Sidewheel Steamer is in the port of Macao, surrounded by more than 20 Chinese vessels. The artist's perspective, looking northwest towards the Praya Grande's center, brings Praha Hill and its stone stairway in view, with the church on top. The inlaid stone walkway of the port city is full of human figures, one wearing a special red jacket while the rest wear blue or white. One westerner in a top hat at the stern post of the closest Chinese ship directs its crew outward bound...