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Amsterdam as the Centre of World Trade
Also titled Amsterdam als centrum van de wereldhandel
Pieter Isaacsz. (Helsingør, 1569–1625)
c. 1604 - c. 1607
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- musical instrument
- Dimensions
- height 79.4 cm x width 165 cm x thickness 3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum Fonds
- 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 painted harpsichord lid is literally bursting with ambition. Depicted at the left is Amsterdam, personified by the City Maid. The world lies at her feet: in the distance is the African Cape of Good Hope, at the left Asia with the Indonesian archipelago, and at the right America. In the meantime, the Dutch sail en masse to these regions, conquer them, and conduct trade there. In this way the Spanish foe is thwarted, as is inscribed in Latin on the stone at the right.
