2-979-701 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Pedder's Hill and Harbour-Master's House, Hong-Kong, 1857. Engraving from a sketch '...by the late Arthur V. Johns, Esq., H.C.S...[near] the town of Victoria, Island of Hong-Kong...the east side of Pedder's Hill, late the Harbour-master's residence and office, 84 feet above and 360 from high-water mark. This View is taken from the 3-gun battery in front of the new Government offices'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.