Nanking commercial quarter

Looking north from the slopes near the Naval Academy showing the Nanking city wall curving round Sz-tsz-shan Hill with the commercial quarter between the wall and the Yangtze-Kiang in the left middle distance. In the right middle distance is the I-fung-men gate, the main gate for travellers entering Nanking from the west. The water in the left foreground is part of the Chin-hwai-ho River system.

Object Details

ID: P27670
Type: Negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Watkins, Engineer Benjamin James
Date made: 1891-1893
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 120 mm x 164 mm