'View of Singapore from the Sea'

Title
'View of Singapore from the Sea'
Year/Period
c. 1848
Region
Singapore
Material
Oil
Dimension
Image size: 42.3 x 69 cm,
Frame size: 51.4 x 78.2 cm
Accession No.
HP-0153
Collection of
National Museum of Singapore

Several three-masted Chinese junks can be seen in this oil painting. The hull of a Chinese junk is characteristically painted at the top and the sterns painted with two circles to look like eyes.

 

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