Category:William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings

The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). Farquhar donated them in eight volumes to the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland on 17 June 1826. In 1937, the Society lent six of the volumes to the Library of the British Museum (Natural History) (now the Library of the Natural History Museum), retaining the two volumes of botanical drawings in its own library. In 1991 the Natural History Museum returned the works to the Society for valuation, and on 20 October 1993 the Society offered them for sale by auction at Sotheby's in London, where they were acquired by Goh Geok Khim, the founder of brokerage firm GK Goh, for S$3 million. Goh donated the drawings to the National Museum of Singapore in 1995. As at 2011, the collection was believed to be worth at least $11 million. In 2011, the collection was placed on permanent display in the Goh Seng Choo Gallery of the museum, named for Goh's father.

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<nowiki>William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings; Colección William Farquhar de dibujos de historia natural; vepër artistike; уметничко дело; ilustraciones botánicas de Malasia y Singapur; William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings</nowiki>
William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings 
Top left: gambier; top right: black pepper; bottom left: wild nutmeg (Gymnacranthera farquhariana); bottom right: durian
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LocationNational Museum of Singapore, Singapore
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