Diorama of Government Square in Paramaribo
Also titled Diorama van het Gouvernementsplein in Paramaribo
Gerrit Schouten (Paramaribo (stad), 1779–1839)
1812
- Medium
- paper, wood (plant material), paint (coating), glue, glass
- Classification
- diorama
- Dimensions
- height 68.5 cm x width 99.5 cm x depth 33 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This is Government Square (now Independence Square) in Paramaribo in the years when Suriname was under British rule (1804-1816). On the path at the right is a woman carrying a child in her arms. Many enslaved women had to give up caring for their own families to feed and raise the slave owner’s children. Once they reached adulthood, these children in turn became the ‘owners’ of their former caretakers.
