Singapore, from the East Side of Government Hill

by Charles Walker Kinloch, attributed to

$38,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A rare and evocative early panoramic view of Singapore, depicting the settlement from Government Hill at a formative moment in its mid nineteenth century development. The painting presents a panoramic prospect from the eastern side of Government Hill Fort Canning , then the principal vantage point from which European observers recorded the expanding town. The composition looks across the Padang, the ceremonial and administrative heart of the colony, toward the harbour and

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