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Mount Talakmau, Sumatra

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Date

c.1842

Artist

Unknown Artist

Collection

The Royal Society

Description

Landscape view of Talakmau, here described as ‘Mount Ophir’ at volcano on the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Inscribed: ‘View of Mouint Ophir (or Goonung Passman by the Natives) as seen from Pooloo Panjong’. Figure no.14 from Report of the length of the pendulum at the equator...made on an expedition...from the observatory at Madras..., by John Goldingham (Madras, 1824).