AFONG LAI and others

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AFONG LAI and others

Canton, Hong Kong, Macao and environs, 1870s-80s

Twenty-six albumen prints including one two-part panorama 8 x 21½ in., other sizes approx. 7¼ x 10½ in. to 8½ x 11 in. or the reverse, one titled in the negative, nine with photographer's ink credit stamp Afong Photographer Hong Kong on verso, twenty-one mounted on card, including five back-to-back, several titled in ink and two with photographer's ink credit stamps on mounts, occasional printed paper series labels, one with ink credit stamp on verso, fifteen matted. (26)

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Exhibited

The view of the country inland of Hong Kong was exhibited at the National Gallery of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1984.

Lot Essay

Images include a panorama of Hong Kong's harbour showing the Victoria Peak; three early street scenes; several harbour views around Hong Kong and the fish market, Canton; a view of the country inland of Hong Kong which today is the Tai-Tam reservoir; two views of the destruction of the Church of St. Antonio in Macao in 1874 and a view of the palace of worship in Canton. One image of a farmer being transported in a wheelbarrow is attributed to W. Saunders but probably printed later by Afong.

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