Identification title(s): album with 14 drawings and a print. Object type: sketchbook album object number: rp-t-00-466. Inscriptions / marks: factory mark, front cover, printed and pasted: 'askermann and co. 's/ new and improved/ tinted sketchbook,/ chairs, pencils, or colors,/ in the style of prout, harding &. / used by amateurs and artists/ repository of arts, 96, strand, london' date and annotation, front endpaper, handwritten in brown pen: 'j. Th. Bik. / traveling with professor/ c. G. C. Reinwardt/ to the mollukkes/ with the brik experiment. / march 1821. / bequeathed to/ j. F. Bik'. Description: album with 13 pasted drawings, one loose drawing and a lithograph made during a trip with the english brig 'experiment' to java, the moluccas, sumbawa, the banda islands and celebes under the leadership of the botanist professor caspar georg carl reinwardt. Manufacture. Manufacturer: draftsman: jannes theodorus bik, printmaker: a. Pagen after a design by: gustave adolphe simonau, printer: pierre simonau. Place of manufacture: indonesia. Dating: ca. Mar-1821 - ca. Aug-1821. Physical characteristics: pencil, black chalk, pen in black and brown and brush in colors; book binding of light brown linen on cardboard. Material: paper watercolor ink pencil chalk binding: linen binding: cardboard technique: pen / brush / lithography (technique). Dimensions: album: h 279 mm × w 375 mm × d 7 mm × w 246 mm explanation some drawings that bik and his brother adrianus johannes made during the trip are reproduced, among others, in the 'travel description' by prof. Reinwardt, published by w. H. De vriese (1858). Source: p. C. Molhuysen and p. J. Blok (ed. ), new dutch biographical dictionary. Part 8. A. W. Sijthoff, leiden 1930. Subject: what: prospect of village, silhouette of village, volcano, coast. Where: gede, rembang, bima. Banda islands, fort belgica, ambon, ternate, manado, gorontalo, tidore. Credit line: donation from mr j. F. Bik. Acquisition: donation 1898. Date: ca. mar-1821 - ca. aug-1821.
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