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Allegory of the 'Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between the States General of the United Netherlands and the United States of America', The Hague, 7 October 1782
Also titled Allegorie op het 'Tractaat van Vriendschap en Commercie tusschen hun Hoog Mogenden de Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden en de Vereenigde Staaten van America', Den Haag, 7 oktober 1782
1782 - 1785
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- grisaille
- Dimensions
- height 101.5 cm x width 161 cm x thickness 3.7 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
Allegory of the treaty between the Republic and the United States, 1782. On 7 October 1782 the Republic and the United States signed a treaty of trade and friendship in The Hague. Two personifications: the Netherlands, on the right with a liberty hat on a spear, offers a hand to America. Meanwhile, an Indian holds a horn of plenty. The fruit from the cornucopia and the tobacco roll in the foreground on the left refer to the results that the treaty was expected to produce.
