SIX LITHOGRAPHS FROM H.D. COLLISONS-MORLEY (BRIT. 1877-1915) DEPICTING SCENES OF HONG KONG Colour lithograph China , 1908 Dimensions: each 24.4 x 45.9cm without frame text with monogram in image lower left, title in lower margin 6 Lithographs from the South China Morning Post , which was founded 1903 in Hong Kong and which was bought 2015 by Alibaba Group Text reads “Litho. by South China Morning Post, Copyright.” Harold Duke Collison-Morley studied art at the Slade School (UK) and at Académie Julian in Paris. He began contributing drawings to the Graphic and Daily Graphic and other papers early in his career. Around 1899 he went to Australia, where he joined the Queensland Imperial Bushmen during the Boer War, and obtained a commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers, receiving the Queen’s Medal. In 1909 he went to Hong Kong for a year. While there he worked for the South China Morning Post and produced a series of six humorous illustrations of life in Hong Kong. Ref: Lancashire Fusiliers Annual 1914-15, Buckhamshire Members Organisation.