Artist / Author / Cartographer:
The Illustrated London News
Title:
Jubilee Statue of Queen Victoria unveiled at Hong Kong
Date:
1896
Medium:
print, later colour
Size:
24 x 15.5 cm
Description:
Jubilee Statue of Queen Victoria unveiled at Hong Kong. From a photograph by the Hon. J.H. Stewart Lockhart, Hon. Secretary to the Hong-Kong Jubilee Committee. Published on July 18th 1896.
Among much brilliant ceremonial, and in the presence of some fifteen thousand spectators, the Jubilee Statue was unveiled in Hong-Kong on May 28 by the Governor, Sir William Robinson. The statue was made by the well known sculptor Signor Raggi, firstly in marble and then in bronze, being commissioned for Hong-Kong. The statue was placed under a pavilion ofPortland Stone designed to protect it from the weather's ravages.
References:
Item Code:
P6026
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