Engraving of Mr Lowe Kong Meng taken from a photo by Frith dated 1866. Lowe Kong Meng was a very successful Chines businessman who lived in East Melbourne at Valetta in Clarendon Street. See http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lowe-kong-meng-4043
Mr Lowe Kong Meng. - (From a Photograph by Frith)
State Library of Victoria Record:
Title: MR LOWE KONG MENG. [picture]
Publisher: Melbourne : Ebenezer and David Syme
Date(s): September 27, 1866
Description: print : wood engraving.
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright
Terms of use: No copyright restrictions apply.
Identifier(s): Accession no(s) IAN27/09/66/4
Subjects: Kong Meng, Lowe b. 1830 ; Wood engravings ; Portrait prints
Notes: Wood engraving published in The Australian news for home readers.
Title printed below image l.c.
Contents/Summary: Half-length, to left, sitting in chair beside table.
Mr. Kong Meng was a successful Chinese immigrant with a trading business in Melbourne.
Related works: Series: Illustrated newspaper file. Australian news for home readers
Link to digitised item: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/132489
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