Collections

A View of HONG KONG Showing Dragon Boats Racing and The Clipper Black Prince Outward Bound

3F

The Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is a major festival in the Chinese-speaking world. British maritime painter Louis Dodd’s oil painting “A View Of HONG KONG Showing Dragon Boats Racing and the Clipper Black Prince Outward Bound” faithfully presents a 19th-century dragon boat race in progress in Hong Kong. Black Prince was a clipper that was used to ship tea from China to the West. The painting is currently on display at the Evergreen Maritime Museum.

A View Of HONG KONG Showing Dragon Boats Racing and the Clipper Black Prince Outward Bound / Louis Dodd / Oil on canvas / 61 x 41 cm / Collection of the Evergreen Maritime Museum
A View Of HONG KONG Showing Dragon Boats Racing and the Clipper Black Prince Outward Bound / Louis Dodd / Oil on canvas / 61 x 41 cm / Collection of the Evergreen Maritime Museum