File:View of Hong Kong, and the 'River Bird' steamer.jpg

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View of Hong Kong   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Studio of Lam Qua  (1801–1860)  wikidata:Q3359237
 
Studio of Lam Qua
Alternative names
Kwan Kiu Cheong
Description Chinese painter
Date of birth/death 1801 Edit this at Wikidata 1860 Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1825 Edit this at Wikidata–1860 Edit this at Wikidata
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View of Hong Kong
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: A view of Hong Kong

View of Hong Kong showing Victoria Peak, the anchorage filled with ships flying American and English merchant and naval flags, with smaller surrounding junks
In the centre of the picture is the River Bird an American steamer, 527 tons, built in New York. She cost 93,000 USD in total, her Beam Engine costing 23,000 USD. She plied between Canton and Hong Kong. A wooden side-wheel steamer of 527 tons, was built at Brooklyn, New York in the United States for Robert Sturgis, J.B. Endicott and Gideon Nye Jr. She sailed from New York on 5 February 1855 under Captain Sampson, and arrived in Macao on 24 May 1855, and was consigned to Captain Endicott, who was evidently the managing owner. Masters by 27 October 1855 were J.W. Paul and later F.H. Duval.
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Lot number: 26053/lot/268/ Asian Art, 28 Jul 2020, London, Knightsbridge

Provenance: Gifted from Canton, 15th April 1860 (photocopied hand written note to the reverse). Lamqua label (photocopy) to reverse.
Depicted place Hong Kong
Date circa 1855
date QS:P571,+1855-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium Ink and colour on paper
Dimensions 17cm x 24.5cm (6.5/8in x 9.5/8in).
Place of creation Hong Kong
Source/Photographer https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26053/lot/268/
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