# The Trading Post of the Dutch East India Company in Hooghly, Bengal

- By: Hendrik van Schuylenburgh
- Date: 1665
- Classification: Painting
- Credit line: www.rijksmuseum.nl
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:De_handelsloge_van_de_VOC_in_Hougly_in_Bengalen_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-4282.jpeg)
- Rights: Public domain
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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.