'River in the Primeval Forest'

Title
'River in the Primeval Forest'
Year/Period
1869
Region
Malaysia and/or Singapore
Dimension
Object size: H:53 x W:43 x D:2.5cm,
Image size: 31.7 x 22 cm
Accession No.
2008-00187

This print (chromolithograph) by Austrian diplomat and naturalist Eugen von Ransonnet was published in his 'Skizzen aus Singapur und Djohor' (Sketches: Singapore and Johore) in 1876. It expresses a desire for both the pristine forest and the rural idyll.