'Sarawak' [Borneo]

Inscribed lower left in ink by the artist, as title, and mounted with ZBA4901 on page 25 (recto) in Fanshawe's West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (ZBA4855).

The view shows a moderate-sized village of huts (apparently not Dyak longhouses) on the edge of a river. Most lie beyond the few in the foreground where it is the way that the tree roots grow down the river bank that may have drawn Fanshawe's attention. He may have drawn it during the brief jungle expedition covered in Chapter 7 of his privately printed family biography (1904) and, if so, it is likely to be on the Quop, Sarawak or Diamond river. [PvdM 2/11]

Object Details

ID: ZBA4902
Type: Watercolour
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Fanshawe, Edward Gennys
Date made: 1845; 1845-46 probably 1846
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 163 mm x 247 mm
Parts: West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (Album)