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CHINESE SCHOOL, 1857

View of Singapore from the Roads with a British Merchant Barque and an American Merchant Brig and other shipping

inscribed and dated 1857 on an on old label on the reverse
17 3/4 x 30 1/2in. (45 x 77.5cm.)

Lot Essay

Among the more prominent buildings along the waterfront are the Court House, the church of St. Andrew's, the spire of the Roman Catholic church emerging from the trees and the triple front of the Institution, renamed the Raffles Institution in 1868. On the summit of Government Hill (now Canning ParK) stands Government House

For a comparable view, see Carl L. Crossman, The China Trade, 1991, p.422, no.7

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