Diorama of the Waterfront of Paramaribo

Diorama of the Waterfront of Paramaribo

NG-2007-50

signature and date

The waterfront along the Suriname River was the vital hub of Surinamese trade. At left a merchantman sails out. The boat next to it – a pondo covered with leaves of the pina (a kind of palm) – carries goods to the plantations. Europeans used the green boat with the Dutch flag for their own transport. The person who commissioned this diorama, British merchant William Leckie, lived in the green house. It went up in flames during a fire that ravaged this part of Paramaribo in 1821.

Eveline Sint Nicolaas, 'Paramaribo in 1820 : Een diorama van de Waterkant door Gerrit Schouten', in: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Jaarverslag 2007, Amsterdam 2008, p. 62-66.

maker: Gerrit Schouten (signed by artist), Suriname

1820

hout en papier maché

height 70.7 cm x width 102 cm x depth 40 cm

Purchased with the support of the Johan Huizinga Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds, the Mondriaan Stichting, the Scato Gockinga Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Stichting Dr Hendrik Muller’s Vaderlandsch Fonds

purchase 2007-05

Public domain

Eveline Sint Nicolaas, 'Paramaribo in 1820 : Een diorama van de Waterkant door Gerrit Schouten', in: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Jaarverslag 2007, Amsterdam 2008, p. 62-66.

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