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Rekord verktyg Display vyer	Detaljer Remove from selection Add to selection CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection ObjektnummerS0001-0100-001-0 TitelSingapore from the Fishing Stakes near St.John's UpphovsmanCharles Dyce Beskrivning“Singapore from the Fishing Stakes near St.John's shows sail traffic in the foreground, the neat row of colonial buildings along the waterfront in the middle ground, and the Government House with its flag flying at full mast in the background. While the land may be foreign, the depiction of it contains imagery of a colonial presence not unfamiliar to the artist or other British viewers. Advancing from the foreground, the viewer’s eye is led to the flagstaff planted on the summit of a high point: the national flag of the colonial masters representing their stake of claim over the colony. Thus, alongside a sense of nostalgia is perhaps Dyce’s sence of patriotic pride. It is in this light that Daniels (1993:5) argues that “imperialist nationalists, almost by definition, have been intent to annex the home-lands of others in their identity myths. They have projected on these lands and their inhabitants pictorial codes expressing both an affinity with the colonizing country and an estrangement from it”. ( Sketches in the Straits, Nineteenth - century watercolours and manuscript of Singapore, Malacca, Penang and Batavia by Charles Dyce, Page 30) ProduktionsplatsSingapore Datum 1842 - 1847 Föremål_kategoriPainting MaterialWatercolour & ink on paper Dimensioner H: 35.7 cm L: 51.8 cm H: 47.1 cm L: 55.5 cm

CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection

ObjektnummerS0001-0100-001-0

TitelSingapore from the Fishing Stakes near St.John's

Beskrivning“Singapore from the Fishing Stakes near St.John's shows sail traffic in the foreground, the neat row of colonial buildings along the waterfront in the middle ground, and the Government House with its flag flying at full mast in the background. While the land may be foreign, the depiction of it contains imagery of a colonial presence not unfamiliar to the artist or other British viewers. Advancing from the foreground, the viewer’s eye is led to the flagstaff planted on the summit of a high point: the national flag of the colonial masters representing their stake of claim over the colony. Thus, alongside a sense of nostalgia is perhaps Dyce’s sence of patriotic pride. It is in this light that Daniels (1993:5) argues that “imperialist nationalists, almost by definition, have been intent to annex the home-lands of others in their identity myths. They have projected on these lands and their inhabitants pictorial codes expressing both an affinity with the colonizing country and an estrangement from it”. ( Sketches in the Straits, Nineteenth - century watercolours and manuscript of Singapore, Malacca, Penang and Batavia by Charles Dyce, Page 30)

ProduktionsplatsSingapore

Datum 1842 - 1847

Föremål_kategoriPainting

MaterialWatercolour & ink on paper

Dimensioner

H: 35.7 cm
L: 51.8 cm
H: 47.1 cm
L: 55.5 cm

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