The Grote Postweg (Great Postal Road) near Rajapolah

• The Great Postal Route near Rajapolah
• The Grote Postweg (Great Postal Road) near Rajapolah

SK-C-1718

Commissioned by the Dutch king, Payen painted the Grote Postweg, the main thoroughfare on Java. This thousand-kilometre-long road from West to East Java was built in one year (1808). Thousands of Indonesian workers died during its construction. The Grote Postweg afforded the Netherlands greater military control over Java. Ordinary Javanese citizens were not allowed to use the new route.

1828

olieverf op doek

167 cm x 140 cm

On loan from the Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde

Public domain

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