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[Panorama of Hong Kong Taken from Happy Valley]
Creator
Felice BeatoPhotographer · 1832–1909
All works by this person →Felice Beato was the first photographer to devote himself entirely to photographing in Asia and the Near East. He photographed in Japan, India, Athens, Constantinople, the Crimea, and Palestine. He settled in Yokohama and from 1863 to 1877 made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan. He eventually opened a furniture and curio business in Burma. Beato's photographic career was
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- 1860
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- English
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 89f00772-5dbc-4df1-98c6-7290453ae70c
From the Getty Museum record
Overlooking Victoria Harbor from a hillside with ships at anchor. To the right the racetrack and Happy Valley Cemetery are visible. In the harbor is Kellet Island and across the water is Kowloon on the Chinese mainland.
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