Diorama of Government Square in Paramaribo

Diorama of Government Square in Paramaribo

NG-412

• signature and date: ‘Door G Schouten / 1812 te Suriname’
• inscription: ‘A View of the Gouvernment House and Parade Ground in the Colony of Surinam, and part of Fort Zelandia’

This is Government Square (now Independence Square) in Paramaribo in the years when Suriname was under British rule (1804-1816). On the path at the right is a woman carrying a child in her arms. Many enslaved women had to give up caring for their own families to feed and raise the slave owner’s children. Once they reached adulthood, these children in turn became the ‘owners’ of their former caretakers.

maker: Gerrit Schouten, Suriname

1812

height 68.5 cm x width 99.5 cm x depth 33 cm

purchase 1959-07

Public domain

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200325544