[HONG-KONG - SECOND OPIUM WAR].

The band of the 44th playing in the camp of Chim-sa-Tsoy [Tsim Sha Tsui], China. [caption title]

London. The Illustrated London News. June 23 1860. Stock ID #178252

Black and white full-page engraving on a newspaper leaf, 28 x 40 cm, related text on the verso, one small marginal edge-tear, upper corner creased but the image in very good condition.

Fine engraving of the combined Expeditionary Force at its encampment at Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, nearing the culmination of the Second Opium War.The descriptive text notes on the verso : "The expeditionary force is arriving rapidly; every day troop-ships come into the harbour. Probyn's horse (Sikhs), to the number of five hundred, are encamped on the mainland; Armstrong guns also are there. I never saw anything more picturesque than the camp: the scenery is beautiful..." (see detail in attached image).

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

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Price: $250.00 AU

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