1086 x 212 mm. Originally a four-part panorama of Hong Kong from Victoria Peak showing the city of Victoria below, the harbour and Kowloon Peninsula across the water. Stone Cutter’s Island can be seen on the left. The photograph shows grand European style buildings with spacious grounds and a waterworks on the lower slopes of Victoria Peak. St John's Cathedral can be seen below the Peak, slightly to the right of centre, and the Queen's Building, completed in 1899 (and demolished in 1961), can be seen amongst other European-style buildings on the waterfront to the left of centre. To the left of the photograph, below Victoria Peak, the flatter land running down to the waterfront is densely packed with one and two-storey buildings, many probably warehouses along the waterfront, in the district of Tai Ping Shan.

The photographer has not been identified. Taken after the completion of the Queen's building in 1899 and before the construction of the Kowloon Canton Railway Terminus and clock-tower, which were completed in 1916. it has been suggested that date is c. 1908 based on the progress of the construction of the new General Post Office (source: Klaus Liphard, contributor to Gwulo: Old Hong Kong).