IMAGE
[Ashworth, Edward] 1814-1896 :Main street Queens Road in 1844, Victoria, Hong Kong. [1844]
- Date
- 1844
- By
- Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896
- Reference
- A-207-019
- Description
Looking along a broad street towards hills. People are walking, and seated and on the road, with a pair of men in the foreground possibly playing a game. Large buildings line both sides of the road. Several people carry parasols. One man carries a yoke with loads on both sides
Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001.
Sketched on Ashworth's voyage from Sydney to China, before he returned to England
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 165 x 290 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Wash drawings, Pen and sepia wash 165 x 290 mm
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