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| Keywords: Onka' Pootie (William Farquhar Collection, 1819–1823).jpg author anonymous Chinese artist A w watercolour drawing of the lar gibbon or white-handed gibbon Hylobates lar known in Malay language Malay as ungka tangan putih The tree may be a bignay also known as the bugnay bignai or currant tree Antidesma bunius or it may simply be from the artist's imagination The drawing is one of 477 natural history drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore commissioned by William Farquhar between 1819 1823 watercolor paper cm 55 38 Institution National Museum of Singapore Goh Seng Choo Gallery <br> Singapore accession number Royal Asiatic Society RAS016 115; National Museum of Singapore SHM1995 2889 object history 17 June 1826 Donated in eight volumes by William Farquhar to the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in London 1937 Six volumes lent by the Society to the Library of the British Museum Natural History now the Library of the Natural History Museum ; two volumes of botanical drawings retained in the Society's library 1991 Volumes lent to the Museum returned to the Society for valuation 20 October 1993 Sold by the Society at a Sotheby's auction in London to Goh Geok Khim for Singapore dollar S 3 million 1995 Donated by Goh to the Singapore History Museum now the National Museum of Singapore See Natural History Drawings below pp 32 “33 credit line Onka' Pootie / White long armed ape Drawings of Animals Insects Reptiles from Malacca no 20 in the Royal Asiatic Society's collection cite book The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings Singapore Goh Geok Khim 1999 1 82 978-981-3065-82-6 Editions Didier Millet ; National Museum of Singapore 2010 253 978-981-4217-69-9 Caption White-handed Gibbon / Ungka Tangan Putih / Hylobates lar http //opencontours files wordpress com/2009/08/dsc06914 jpg other versions PD-Art-100 Antidesma bunius Hylobates lar William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings | ||||
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