Title
"Funeral of a Chinese Towkay"
Creator
Year/Period
around 1900s
Region
Singapore
Material
Dimension
Object size: 21.5 x 28.4 cm
Accession No.
2015-01907
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
The studio established in 1877 by the German photographer Gustave Richard Lambert (1846–1907) became one of the most famous and enduring in Singapore. It catered to both visitors and local residents. Lambert himself left Singapore in 1885, but the business continued to be run by different European managersuntil it finally closed in about 1919. Many of the Lambert photographs have inscribed titles and inventory numbers, corresponding to catalogues issued by the studio.
