CHINA - BEIJINGCHUNG TUNG LITHO WORKS. Map of Peking, large colour lithographed map of Beijing/Peking, the title cartouche in Chinese and English, integral key in Chinese, a few place-names on map given in roman letters, framed and glazed by Wah-Cheong of Hong Kong [OCLC 961384049], sheet to view 760 x 525mm., Tientsin, Printed at Chung Tung Litho Works, 1914FootnotesRARE MAP OF BEIJING, with a distinguished provenance. Provenance: George Ernest Morrison (1862-1920), or "'Chinese Morrison' or 'Morrison of Peking', as he was known, was one of the greatest newspaper correspondents of his age" (ODNB). In 1897 he was appointed as resident correspondent of The Times in Peking (Beijing), and during his twenty years in the post he visited every province of China; his youngest son, Colin G.M. Morrison, with typed label on verso of frame "Private Property of C.G.M. Morrison, The Secretariat, Hong Kong, May 1957"; by family descent to current vendor.
CHINA - BEIJINGCHUNG TUNG LITHO WORKS. Map of Peking, large colour lithographed map of Beijing/Peking, the title cartouche in Chinese and English, integral key in Chinese, a few place-names on map given in roman letters, framed and glazed by Wah-Cheong of Hong Kong [OCLC 961384049], sheet to view 760 x 525mm., Tientsin, Printed at Chung Tung Litho Works, 1914FootnotesRARE MAP OF BEIJING, with a distinguished provenance. Provenance: George Ernest Morrison (1862-1920), or "'Chinese Morrison' or 'Morrison of Peking', as he was known, was one of the greatest newspaper correspondents of his age" (ODNB). In 1897 he was appointed as resident correspondent of The Times in Peking (Beijing), and during his twenty years in the post he visited every province of China; his youngest son, Colin G.M. Morrison, with typed label on verso of frame "Private Property of C.G.M. Morrison, The Secretariat, Hong Kong, May 1957"; by family descent to current vendor.
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