Gunung Gamping, east Java
Date
1853
Creator
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): 385mm
width (page): 540mm
height (print): 245mm
width (print): 385mm
Subject
Biology
> Botany
Earth Sciences
> Geology
Biology
> Natural history
Politics & Government
> Political doctrines
> Colonialism
> Botany
Earth Sciences
> Geology
Biology
> Natural history
Politics & Government
> Political doctrines
> Colonialism
Content object
Description
Landscape view of Gunung Gamping, a mountain in East Java, Indonesia. Two figures are shown relaxing in the shade of some palm trees in the left-hand foreground as viewed, a rocky, possibly limestone, stretch separating them from the foot of the mountain.
Inscribed below: ‘Lith v. Berger/ Verlag d. Arnold’schen Buchhandlung in Leipzig/ Gunung = Gamping [Mount = Gamping]/ Farbendruck b. Gebr. Delius in Berlin’
Plate 3 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.
Inscribed below: ‘Lith v. Berger/ Verlag d. Arnold’schen Buchhandlung in Leipzig/ Gunung = Gamping [Mount = Gamping]/ Farbendruck b. Gebr. Delius in Berlin’
Plate 3 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.
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