Unknown authorUnknown author (anonymous Chinese artist).
Title
English: Bentoorong.
Description
English: A watercolour drawing of the binturong or Asian bearcat (Arctictis binturong). The drawing is one of 477 natural history drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore commissioned by William Farquhar.
Date
between 1819 and 1823
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1819-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1823-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
1937: Six volumes lent by the Society to the Library of the British Museum (Natural History) (now the Library of the Natural History Museum); two volumes of botanical drawings retained in the Society's library.
1991: Volumes lent to the Museum returned to the Society for valuation.
20 October 1993: Sold by the Society at a Sotheby's auction in London to Goh Geok Khim for S$3 million.
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