Trading posts of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)

• Trading posts of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)
• View of Canton, China

Canton

SK-A-4474

inscription: ‘Canton.’

This series of paintings hanging high in a row here feature various trading posts of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Asia. It was a network between which not only products but also enslaved people were transported. The VOC shipped between 660,000 and 1,135,000 people in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: inventariskaart, conditierapport 1997, 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 1997, aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

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