'Looking up the Borneo River from Chermin Island' [Brunei, Borneo]

Inscribed bottom centre in ink by the artist, as title, this view up the Borneo River from Chermin Island is mounted on page 24 (recto) of Fanshawe's West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (ZBA4855). It shows a view from high ground on the island with what my be the remains of a pole-built structure on the left. It was probably done on or about 27 August 1845 when Fanshawe's ship 'Cruizer' was anchored inside Moarra Point at the entrance to the Borneo River in what is now Brunei: 'At half-past 5 A.M we set off [for Brunè/ Borneo town] in the Pinnace. [Rajah James] Brooke, [Captain] Bethune, Hinde, Wiliamson [Brooke's assistant and translator] and myself were the party ... we halted at Cherimon [sic], a pretty little island at the mouth of the Borneo River, and owing to contrary tides we did not reach Brunè till 2 o'clock, P.M....' (Fanshawe [1904] p. 127). [PvdM 2/11]

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ID:	ZBA4899
Type:	Watercolour
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Fanshawe, Edward Gennys
Date made:	August 1845; 1845-46
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 165 mm x 493 mm
Parts:	West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (Album) 'Forte King George, Tobago.' (Print) (ZBA4860) 'Rockey Bay, Tobago.' [Rockly Bay] (Print) (ZBA4861) 'Courtam, Tobago.' [Courland] (Print) (ZBA4862) 'Bocca Grande, Trinidad' (Print) (ZBA4863) 'Grenada' (Print) (ZBA4864) Bay of Cariscoa, Grenada (Print) (ZBA4865) 'Fort George, Grenada' (Print) (ZBA4866) 'Berkshire Hill and Kingstown, St Vincents' (Print) (ZBA4867) 'Dorsetshire Hill, St Vincents' (Print) (ZBA4868) 'Roseau, Dominica' (Print) (ZBA4869) 'From Morne Fortune St. Lucia' (Print) (ZBA4870) The Pitons, St Lucia (Print) (ZBA4871) 'Pigeon Island' [St Lucia] (Print) (ZBA4872) 'From Shirley Heights, Antigua.' (Print) (ZBA4873) 'Dow's Hill, Antigua' (Print) (ZBA4874) 'Falmouth Bay, Antigua' (Print) (ZBA4875) 'Freemans Bay' [Antigua] (Print) (ZBA4876) 'Basseterre, St Kitts' (Print) (ZBA4877) 'Entrance of the Harbour of St. Thomas's' (Print) (ZBA4878) 'Kingston Bay, from near Port Royal, Jamaica' (Print) (ZBA4879) 'Off Morant, Jamaica' (Print) (ZBA4880) 'Kingston Bay from Ft. Nugent - Jamaica.' (Print) (ZBA4881) 'Port Antonio - Jamaica' (Print) (ZBA4882) 'Rio Bueno, Jamaica' (Print) (ZBA4883) 'From Signal Hill - Bermuda' (Print) (ZBA4884) 'Iceberg' (Print) (ZBA4885) 'Staten Island' [New York ?] (Print) (ZBA4886) 'Fall at Montmorenci' [Montmorency, Quebec] (Print) (ZBA4887) '7 Miles west of Gannequis' [Gananoque, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4888) 'Lake St. Peters, St Laurence' [Lake St Peter, Ontario, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4889) 'Rivière de Loup' [Quebec] (Print) (ZBA4890) 'St Ann's Church' [possibly at Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4891) 'Looking up Niagara River from near Fort George' [Ontario, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4892) 'Near By Town' [Ottawa, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4893) 'Falls of Niagara' [Ontario, Canada] (Print) (ZBA4894) 'Straits of Sunda' (Print) (ZBA4895) 'Borneo. Looking down the River from our house' [Brunei, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4896) 'Borneo. Looking up the River from our house' [Brunei, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4897) 'N. Coast of Sumatra' (Watercolour) (ZBA4898) 'Looking up the Borneo River from Chermin Island' [Brunei, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4899) 'Coast of Borneo - Mr Brooke's Territory.' [Sarawak, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4900) 'Village of the Stang Tribe' [Sarawak, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4901) 'Sarawak' [Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4902) 'Keeney Balloo S.E.' [Mount Kinabalu, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4903) 'Village & head house of the Segu Tribe / on the Manuk or Segur River' [Sarawak, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4904) 'From Quop Mountain / The Village of the Sunta Dyaks' [Sarawak, Borneo] (Watercolour) (ZBA4905)

'Looking up the Borneo River from Chermin Island' [Brunei, Borneo]

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