Christopher Murphy Jr and his Asian Illustrations

I’ve blogged about Harry Hervey, the Asian travelogue writer, novelist of French Indo-China, adapter of Somerset Maugham’s Rain and the treatment writer of Shanghai Express. Hervey was good friends with the artist Christopher Murphy (Jr.), though I’m not quite sure about whether they travelled to China and Asia together or not. Certainly they were friends and contemporaries (Hervey born 1900; Murphy 1902) and spent time in Savannah, Georgia (Hervey lived in the old De Soto Hotel in Savannah while his mother was the housekeeper).

Murphy provided the illustrations that accompany Hervey’s 1925 travelogue of the Far East Where Strange Gods Call: Pages Out of the East. Although I’m not sure Murphy made the trip. They’re good illustrations anyway…

Hong Kong

Canton

Macao

Hong Kong

Canton