© British Library
Collection of drawings and watercolours from the Raffles Family Collection
Artist: Chinese, Malay, British, Dutch, Asian, William Daniell (1769 - 1837)
Location: British Library
Date: circa 1824
Materials: watercolour on paper
Dimensions: various dimensions
Grant:
Amount Paid: £114,814 (Total: £386,392; tax remission)
Vendor: Michael Stewart
Review number: 5736 (2006)
Provenance:
Commissioned by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1824); by descent in the Raffles family to Michael Stewart; India Office Library (on loan since 1969).
Description:
Sir Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was a famous colonial administrator and founder of Singapore (1819). He was a passionate student of natural history and amassed a great collection of specimens and drawings. Most of these drawings and watercolours were commissioned while Raffles was Governor of Bencoolen (Bengkulu) in Sumatra, to replace an earlier collection lost in a fire at sea in 1824. The natural history subjects make up about three-quarters of the collection and are by anonymous Chinese (and possibly Malay) artists; the miscellaneous drawings include work by British, Dutch, and Asian artists.
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