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Two Views of Dutch East India Company Trading Posts: Lawec in Cambodia and Banda in the Southern Moluccas
Also titled Twee gezichten op VOC-vestigingen, Lawec in Cambodja en Banda in de zuidelijke Molukken
c. 1662 - c. 1663
- Medium
- linen (material), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 97 cm x width 139.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
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
