IMAGE
[Ashworth, Edward] 1814-1896 :Victoria, Hong Kong from the Eastward. [1844 or 1845]
- Date
- 1844 - 1845
- By
- Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896
- Reference
- B-042-014
- Description
View from a high point looking down into the settlement and port area, with many ships in the harbour
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 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 292 x 433 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Wash drawings, Pen and sepia wash 292 x 433 mm
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