Signed and numbered Shepherd & Robertson Photo: 1112 in the negative. Full-length seated studio portrait of a group of three men. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue as 'Nawabs'.
Hong Kong was visited by the compiler of this album from 3-8 March 1879. Full-length portrait of two young Chinese women seated on either side of a small table in front of a painted backdrop.
Whampoa was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th February 1879. General view of rows of local boats with corrugated roofs, docked along the river bank.
With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'No. 32.- Decapitation. Our artist has seized the moment when the culprit, half stupefied with opium, having been shot out of the cage or basket in which he has reached the ground, has his queue firmly grasped and pulled over his head by a man who wil...