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De handelsloge van de VOC in Hougly in Bengalen, Hendrik van Schuylenburgh

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Hendrik van Schuylenburgh: The Trading Post of the Dutch East India Company in Hooghly, Bengal   wikidata:Q17339444  reasonator:Q17339444
Artist
Hendrik van Schuylenburgh  (circa 1620
date QS:P,+1620–00–00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
–1689)    wikidata:Q13724355
 
Alternative names
Hendrick van Schuijlenburgh, Hendrik van Schuijlenburgh, Hendrick van Schuylenburgh
Description Dutch painter
Date of birth/death circa 1620
date QS:P,+1620-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
1689  Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Middelburg Middelburg
Work period from 1644 until 1689
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1644-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1689-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Middelburg (1642-1689), Asia (1661-1668) (?)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q13724355
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Dutch:
De handelsloge van de VOC in Hougly in Bengalen

The Trading Post of the Dutch East India Company in Hooghly, Bengal
title QS:P1476,nl:"De handelsloge van de VOC in Hougly in Bengalen"
label QS:Lnl,"De handelsloge van de VOC in Hougly in Bengalen"
Object type painting  Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Trade lodge of the VOC in Hooghly, Bengal, by Hendrik van Schuylenbergh (ca. 1620–1689), oil on canvas, 1665. Left the river Ganges with a few ships. Above a long train of Indians is approaching, led by a Dutch trumpeter and banner carriers with Dutch flags, in the middle of the procession two Dutchmen let themselves be carried in a litter. To right of this is an encampment with an Indian dignitary in a tent, horses, cows, elephants and dromedaries. On the right side of the image a graveyard. Bottom right on a stele the marshaled arms of Pieter Sterthemius and Maria Calandrini.
Date 1665
date QS:P571,+1665-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 203 cm (79.9 in); width: 316 cm (10.3 ft)
dimensions QS:P2048,203U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,316U174728
institution QS:P195,Q190804
Accession number
SK-A-4282
Object history 1926: acquired by
Exhibition history 1990-1991, The Raj : India and the British 1600-1947, Londen
References
Source/Photographer www.rijksmuseum.nl
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