Peter Willem Trap - Singapore Street with Chinese Shophouses, Archiv für Ethnographie, Trap – Chromolithograph (1888)
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Peter Willem Trap’s 1888 chromolithograph depicts a street of Chinese shophouses in Singapore and was published in the first volume of the Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie in Leiden.
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This chromolithograph, plate IX of the first volume of the Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, published in Leiden in 1888, shows a street scene in Singapore: a row of Chinese shophouses with tiled eaves, shuttered verandas and signboards lettered in Chinese above a busy street with vendors, porters, passers-by and carriages. It is lettered "P.W.M. Trap exc." and "ex coll. Mus. Ethnogr. Lugd. Bat.", as the plate is drawn after a pasteboard-and-paper model by a Chinese artist in the ethnographic museum in Leiden.
The plate illustrates Gustaaf Schlegel's article "A Singapore Streetscene" in the first volume of the Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, the international journal of ethnography founded in Leiden in 1888, which explains the Chinese signboards and house inscriptions shown in the model. Shophouses, with a shop on the ground floor and living quarters above, were the typical buildings of the Chinese quarters of Singapore.
Peter Willem Trap was a lithographer and printer in Leiden, whose firm printed color plates for scientific, ethnographic and geographical publications.
Artist or Maker: Peter Willem Trap
Dimensions: Approximately 30 cm x 24 cm (11.8 in x 9.4 in)
Medium: Chromolithograph
Date: 1888
SKU: LADHC3010
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Dahlströms Rare Prints OÜ specialises in original antique prints, maps, natural history, botanical illustrations, decorative engravings and rare books from the 16th to the 20th century. We source our items from private collections, auctions and libraries across Europe. All items are carefully described, professionally packed and shipped from France.
This chromolithograph, plate IX of the first volume of the Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, published in Leiden in 1888, shows a street scene in Singapore: a row of Chinese shophouses with tiled eaves, shuttered verandas and signboards lettered in Chinese above a busy street with vendors, porters, passers-by and carriages. It is lettered "P.W.M. Trap exc." and "ex coll. Mus. Ethnogr. Lugd. Bat.", as the plate is drawn after a pasteboard-and-paper model by a Chinese artist in the ethnographic museum in Leiden.
The plate illustrates Gustaaf Schlegel's article "A Singapore Streetscene" in the first volume of the Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, the international journal of ethnography founded in Leiden in 1888, which explains the Chinese signboards and house inscriptions shown in the model. Shophouses, with a shop on the ground floor and living quarters above, were the typical buildings of the Chinese quarters of Singapore.
Peter Willem Trap was a lithographer and printer in Leiden, whose firm printed color plates for scientific, ethnographic and geographical publications.
Artist or Maker: Peter Willem Trap
Dimensions: Approximately 30 cm x 24 cm (11.8 in x 9.4 in)
Medium: Chromolithograph
Date: 1888
SKU: LADHC3010
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Shipping & Combined Purchases:
We are happy to combine multiple purchases into one shipment, helping you save on shipping costs. Please contact us before making payment so that we can calculate and adjust the shipping cost accordingly.
All items are professionally packed and shipped from France by Mail Boxes Etc. (MBE) on behalf of Dahlströms Rare Prints OÜ, Estonia.
Every shipment is fully insured and sent exclusively via UPS or FedEx, with tracking provided after dispatch.
We handle every shipment with the utmost care, ensuring that our antique prints, maps and rare books arrive safely and in the condition described.
Seller's Story
Dahlströms Rare Prints OÜ specialises in original antique prints, maps, natural history, botanical illustrations, decorative engravings and rare books from the 16th to the 20th century. We source our items from private collections, auctions and libraries across Europe. All items are carefully described, professionally packed and shipped from France.
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Artist
Peter Willem Trap
Title of artwork
Singapore Street with Chinese Shophouses, Archiv für Ethnographie, Trap – Chromolithograph (1888)
Technique
Lithograph
Signature
Plate signed
Country of origin
Netherlands
Year
1888
Condition
Good condition
Height
30 cm
Width
24 cm
Depiction/theme
Cityscape
Style
Realism
Sold with frame
No
Period
19th century
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