Guanwen 官文, Governor General of Huguang with his suite, Hankou, 1858

Title: Guanwen 官文, Governor General of Huguang with his suite, Hankou, 1858
Subject: Original Title 'Governor General of Hoo-kwang with his suite'
Description: 'Governor General of Hoo-kwang with his suite'. A Manchu, Guanwen 官文, served as Huguang Governor General (or Viceroy) from 1855-1867. Photograph by William Jocelyn, taken on the deck of HMS Furious. This is probably the first photograph taken in Hankou (Wuhan). Guanwen, the governor general of the provinces of Hubei (Hupeh) and Hunan, is probably the man sitting second from the left. A wood engraving of this image (flipped) was published in 1859 in Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan by Laurence Oliphant. See History of Photography in China 1842-1860 by Terry Bennett, pages 136 and 138.
Creator: William Jocelyn
Source: https://www.hpcbristol.net/visual/vh01-057
Date: 1858, Saturday 11 December

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