The ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS

(English periodical published in London from 1842

to the end of the Nineteenth Century)

“Hong-Kong from the Harbour”

Original woodcut from the english periodical “The Illustrated London News”, published in London on February 1854.

Very nice full page exemplar with the usual typography text at verso, in good conditions and recent watercolouring.

At the top center the portrait of Sir John Bowring, Governor of Hong-Kong in that date.

References:

Houfe “The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators” Woodbridge 1996 pag.26. (for The Illustrated London News)

Size in mm: 280 x 405 sheet