The Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies

• The Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies
• The Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies, 19 July 1599

SK-A-2858

• signature and date, lower left,: ‘H Vroom F P Harlem 1599’
• inscription, on one of the ships,: ‘mavryse’
• inscription, on the frame, in gold: ‘Den eersten Mey anno 1598 / Mauritius, Hollant, Overijssel en Vrieslant / Vier schepen syn geseylt om specery te halen / naar Bantam, hebben oock den handel daer geplant en quamen rijcklijc weer voor d'Amsterdamsche palen / Den negentienden Iuly anno 1599.’

Under the command of Jacob Cornelisz van Neck, eight Dutch ships set sail to the Indonesian Archipelago in 1598. The first four returned from Bantam (Java) a year later, on 19 July 1599. The other ships had sailed on to the Moluccas (Maluku Islands). They too returned, laden with nutmeg, mace and cloves.

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

painter: Hendrik Cornelisz. Vroom (signed by artist)

1599

olieverf op doek

• height 102.3 cm x width 218.4 cm
• height 99.5 cm x width 216 cm
• height 129 cm x width 247 cm x depth 12 cm

purchase 1921-04

Public domain

...; collection Kneppelhout, Oosterbeek;{Note RMA.} from Johanna Maria Kneppelhout van Sterkenburg (1851-1923), The Hague, fl. 5,000, to the museum, 1921; on loan to the Amsterdams Historisch Museum since 1975

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

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