Gunung Sewu, 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): 240mm
width (print): 325mm
width (page): 540mm
height (print): 240mm
width (print): 325mm
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 a valley in Gunung Sewu, the karst region of southern central Java, Indonesia, with three figures travelling through, two on foot and one on horseback. Grassy reeds and a large tree with three monkeys perched in it dominate the right-hand foreground as viewed.
Inscribed below: ‘F. Junghuhn, del./ Gunung-Sewu. [Mount Sewu]/ Lith. Anst. v. Winckelmann & Söhne in Berlin.’
Plate 4 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: ‘F. Junghuhn, del./ Gunung-Sewu. [Mount Sewu]/ Lith. Anst. v. Winckelmann & Söhne in Berlin.’
Plate 4 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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