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| Keywords: PedraBranca-TRobertson-1882.jpg John Turnbull Thomson Pedra Branca 1882 Oil painting 620 x 430 mm A painting of the island of w Pedra Branca Singapore Pedra Branca in the South China Sea inscribed in ink T Robertson 1882 Though the painting was executed well after Horsburgh Lighthouse had been constructed it was faithfully based on an original sketch of the rock by Thomson in 1850 even to the extent of having the 'same' wave breaking over it Robertson was a well-known painter of seascapes in New Zealand in the 1880s and it is believed that John Turnbull Thomson commissioned him to make a painting from Thomson's original sketch In his sketch Thomson had labelled the sea on the left of the island Singapore Strait and on the right China Sea The hill in the distance on the left was labelled Barbukit Hill which is on the Malaysia n mainland See Hall-Jones The Thomson Paintings p 66 On Thomas Robertson see cite web Capt Thomas Robertson 1819 “1873 http //freepages genealogy rootsweb ancestry com/~nzbound/robertson htm RootsWeb 2010-02-15 The country in which the painting was created is presently unknown Oxford University Press 1983 67 0195825667 PD-SG-artisticwork or PD-NZ PD-1923 Other versions PD-SG-artisticwork PD-NZ PD-old Pedra Branca Islands in art Batu Puteh | ||||
