Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21485

    Coast near Rongkap, south 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): 250mm
    width (print): 360mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    Landscape view of the coastline near Rangkop, south Java, Indonesia. showing several figures navigating a rocky terrain in the foreground, including possibly a self-portrait of the author, and a grass covered coastline in the background. A large tree with surface roots and hanging vines dominates the right-hand side of the print as viewed, and in the lower-left a man is descending a ladder, suspended on a branch.

    Inscribed ‘F. Junghuhn, del./ Südküste Ostwärts von Rongkop [South coast east of Rongkap]/ Lith. Anst. v. Winckelmann & Söhne in Berlin.’

    Plate 2 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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