Johanna Staude by Gustav Klimt, 1917 Size:24x36in (60x90cm) with the Flagstaff Tower and

with the Flagstaff Tower and Hindu Rao’s House commanding the higher ground—features that carry the memory of 1857 and the city’s strategic topography

In this period

The map's style is reminiscent of early 20th-century artistry

their long chains and isolated massifs rendered as a lattice of light and shade

Old maps of southeast Asia are particularly rare

Johanna Staude by Gustav Klimt, 1917 Size:24x36in (60x90cm) with the Flagstaff Tower andJohanna Staude by Gustav Klimt (1917 1918) is a luminous late portrait from the final chapter of the artists career. Painted in oil on canvas, it presents Staude with piercing blue eyes set against a vivid orange ground, her patterned dress alive with ornamental motifs that echo the fashion forward spirit of Vienna at the time. Klimts fascination with surface design and the Wiener Werksttte aesthetic is on full display, while the gently unfinished