Happy Valley in the The London Illustrated News, 1858
Posted: October 5th, 2026 | No Comments »The London Illustrated News on the May 1858 races at Hong Kong’s Happy Valley. The original artist was Yokohama-based Thomas Wirgman, special correspondent and illustrator for The Illustrated London News in China and Japan. His field sketches were sent back to London, where professional workshop artisans engraved them onto woodblocks to be printed in the weekly paper.
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