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'Jungle Fire near Bukit Timah'

Title

Creator

Eugen von Ransonnet

Year/Period

1876

Region

Singapore

Dimension

Object size: H41.2 x W46.5 x D2.5cm,
Image size: 20 x 25 cm

Accession No.

2007-00838

Collection of

National Museum of Singapore

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. Von Ransonnet spent three days at a Catholic mission in Bukit Timah and witnessed the burning of the forest to clear land for cultivation.