Stock ID #177517 Opening of the first railway in China: the first train starting from Shanghai. SHANGHAI RAILWAY -- ANTIQUE PRINT.

Opening of the first railway in China: the first train starting from Shanghai.

London. The Illustrated London News. 2 September, 1876. Stock ID #177517

Engraving on a newspaper leaf 40 x 27.1 cm, slight toning, in very good condition, preserved in a window mount.

Depiction from "The Illustrated London News" after original photographs by William Saunders, the leading photographer in Shanghai of the late Qing period. The first railway was short-lived. Built by the British firm Jardine, Matheson and Co., but without the approval of the Qing government, who promptly had it dismantled the following year. The construction of railways in China was not to take off in earnest until 1881.

From the estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker.

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