View looking across the rooftops of the city towards the Great Mosque: 'The photograph illustrating this chapter, taken from the roof of the silversmith's bazaar, shows for the most part merely the ordinary features of modern Oriental housetops. But it has been selected as exhibiting the only ex...
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated portrait of Yixin, Prince Kung, 'now about forty years of age ... the sixth son of the Emperor Tao Kwang ... Prior to 1860 he was little known beyond the precincts of the Court: but, when the Emperor fled from the summer palace, it was he who came ...
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the waterfront, with the harbour to the right: 'The eminence on the left is Morrison's Hill, crowned with a row of substantially built foreign residences, and commanding an extensive and imposing view of the city and ports. Victoria, wit...