The Trading Post of the Dutch East India Company in Hooghly, Bengal

• The Trading Post of the Dutch East India Company in Hooghly, Bengal
• The Dutch Factory in Hooghly-Chinsurah, Bengal

SK-A-4282

• signature, date and inscription, lower right, on the pedestal: ‘Afsbeeldinge Vande Vereenighde / Nederlantze Oostindische Compas / Logie, ofte Hooft Comptoir / in Bengale, / ter Stede Oügelij, / Anno= 1665= / Schuijlenburgh = deiln.’
• coat of arms, lower right, above the pedestal: divided vertically. 1: a gold chevron and three gold stars, two above and one below, on a dark green (originally blue) field. 2: a silver eagle above a gold saltire, on a dark green (originally blue) field

There is much activity in and around the fort at the trading post in Hougly, Bengal (northeast India): ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) sail along the Ganges River, the director visits an Indian ruler and enslaved people are at work. In the 17th century Bengal was one of the places where the VOC and its employees bought the most people. They transported them to other VOC trading posts around the Indian ocean.

Inzoomer object op zaal, 2013 (Nederlands/English).

painter: Hendrik van Schuylenburgh

1665

olieverf op doek

height 203 cm x width 313 cm

Public domain

? Commissioned by Pieter Sterthemius († 1676) for East India House, Middelburg, 1665;…; purchased by the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague (inv. no. 147), in or before 1881; transferred to the museum, 1885

Inzoomer object op zaal, 2013 (Nederlands/English).

To refer to this object, please use the following persistent URL:

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200110521