Pulo Penang or Prince of Wales Island, Straits of Malacca. From an Original Sketch taken on the spot by W. J. Huggins and Painted for D. W. Brown, Esqr. of that Place, by C. Rosenberg

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After William John Huggins
Pulo Penang or Prince of Wales Island, Straits of Malacca. From an Original Sketch taken on the spot by W. J. Huggins and Painted for D. W. Brown, Esq^r. of that Place, by C. Rosenberg
handcoloured aquatint heightened with gum arabic, published by W. J. Huggins, London, [nd]
18 3/8 x 24in. (46.7 x 60.9cm.)

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Lot Essay

For notes on this ('perhaps one of the finest and most desirable of the topographical engravings by Huggins'), and Huggins's other Penang paintings and prints, see Lim Chong Keat, Penang Views 1770-1860, Singapore, 1986, pp.112-113. David Wardlaw Brown (1812-1864), for whom Huggins painted this view, was the second son of the pioneer nutmeg planter on Penang, David Brown (1778-1825), who took over James Scott's estate on the island in 1808 and built Glugor House in 1812. His son enjoyed the benefit of the nutmeg plantation on the Glugor estate, the original seedlings bearing fruit from 1836 and generating income of £10,000 per annum. For the painting of this view by Huggins dated 1838, commissioned by David Wardlaw Brown, see Keat, Ibid, pp.96 and 122, plate 69.

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