Two Views of Dutch East India Company Trading Posts: Lawec in Cambodia and Banda in the Southern Moluccas

Two Views of Dutch East India Company Trading Posts: Lawec in Cambodia and Banda in the Southern Moluccas

Neyra

SK-A-4476

inscription: ‘Neyra.’

From 1609 the East India Company was sailing to Lawec, near Phnom Penh. There the company purchased provisions, such as rice, butter, pork, and lard, for Batavia. Banda supplied mace and nutmeg. In 1621, Governor-General Coen punished the island for trading with other countries: all fifteen thousand islanders were killed or driven away. The ‘slaughterer of Banda’ founded nutmeg parcels, heavily guarded by forts.

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: inventariskaart, conditierapport 1998, aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

• painter: attributed to Johannes Vinckboons
• painter: anoniem, Northern Netherlands [rejected]

c. 1662 - c. 1663

olieverf op doek

height 97 cm x width 140 cm

Public domain

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: inventariskaart, conditierapport 1998, aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

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