Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21484

    Coast near Semarang, central Java

    Date
    1853
    Creator - Organisation
    Winckelmann und Söhne, Lithographer
    After
    Friedrich Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809 - 1864, German-Dutch) , Botanist
    Object type
    Library reference
    49072
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 415mm
    width (page): 540mm
    height (print): 245mm
    width (print): 370mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    Landscape view of a farmer and their flock of goats and banteng, against a background of patchwork fields, shrubs and trees somewhere near Semarang, west Java, Indonesia. Framed by clusters of palms trees. Beyond, houses are visible, and the coastline, with three vessels on the left-hand side as viewed.

    Inscribed below: ‘F. Junghuhn del./ Nordkuste bei Samarang [North coast near Semarang]/ Lith. Anst. v. Winckelmann & Söhne in Berlin.’

    Plate 1 from Franz Junghuhn’s Landschaften-Atlas zu Java: seine Gestalt, Pflanzendecke und innere Bauart (Leipzig: Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1853), an atlas of eleven lithographs depicting Javanese landscapes.

    Friedrich Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864), German-Dutch botanist and geologist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. Junghuhn worked as a medical doctor for the Dutch colonial forces in Jakarta, before settling in Java, Indonesia, in 1837, where he studied and published extensively on the land.
    Object history
    Junghuhn’s Landschaften-Atlas zu Java was published to accompany his four volume Java: seine Gestalt, Pflanzendecke und Innere Bauart (Java: its shape, vegetation cover and inner construction). These plates are from a German edition, translated from the Dutch original.
    Associated place
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       > Asia
          > Indonesia
             > Java
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