2-979-702 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Victoria Peak, 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...a north-east view of Victoria Peak, 1800 feet high, taken from the Harbour master's Flagstaff, showing Caine's House, late the residence of Governor Sir John F. Davis, Bart. Below is a Chinese Bungalow, the first solid building erected on Hong-Kong as a European residence in 1841, by the present Lieut.-Governor, Col. Caine; to the right, on the slope of the hill, the Magistracy and Prison compound'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.