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View of a houseboat and perahu

Title

Year/Period

c1825

Material

Paper

Technique

Brown watercolour and wash over pencil

Dimension

Object size: 16.4 x 23.2 cm

Accession No.

2018-00804

Collection of

National Museum of Singapore

This drawing was taken from a sketchbook of the voyage of the Elphinstone, a British East India Company ship launched in 1824. The ship, an 18-gun sloop, was captained by Henry H Sumner and operated out of London. At the centre of the drawing is a houseboat, most probably used by Europeans, while the foreground features a small perahu.