Java Collection

Buitenzorg, Bogor

The Governor’s Residence. Home to Raffles and his wife, Olivia

[Willem Troost 1834]

The Conquest of Java

by Major William Thorn, friend of Colonel Robert Rollo Gillespie

[originally published 1815]

A House on Rijswijk, Batavia

A Dutch merchant residence of the period

[Ernst Alfred Hardouin 1835]

Fort Meester Cornelis

Scene of the most brutal battle of the conflict in 1811

Tim Hannigan’s detailed study of the events of the British Invasion

[Tim Hannigan 2010]

The Keraton of Yogyakarta

Visited by Raffles December 1811

Zion Church, Weltevreden

Weltevreden was the Dutch enclave outside Batavia. Note the canal leading to Batavia town.

[J.C. Rappard 1888]

Interior of Zion Church

Scene of the wedding of Lanoon and Charlotte Arboni Light in 1813

[J.C. Rappard 1888]

A Joglo House c 1900

Charlotte Arboni and her artist father lived in an elegant collection of joglo pavilions

[Collection of Tropenmuseum, NL]

Semarang, north coast Java

Lanoon and Koh Kok Chye met up in Chinatown in 1811

[c. 1900 Tropenmuseum Collection]

Tin mining on Bangka Island

Lanoon Light was Resident of Bangka Island from 1812-3

[Tropenmuseum Collection c.1910]