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Presentation of the Lombok Cross by Queen Wilhelmina on the Malieveld
Also titled Uitreiking van het Lombokkruis door koningin Wilhelmina op het Malieveld in Den Haag, 6 juli 1895
Mari ten Kate (The Hague, 1831–1910)
1895-07 - 1895-12-31
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 8.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Koninklijke Verzamelingen, The Hague
- 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
Soldiers from the Royal Netherlands East-Indies Army (KNIL) are honoured for their actions on Lombok (an island east of Bali). The Netherlands violently consolidated its colonial hold there at the cost of the livesof thousands of in habitants and looted the palace full of treasures. Young Queen Wilhelmina pins the Lombok Cross, made from the melted-down copper of captured cannons, on one of the men. The Dutch colonial empire is here being celebrated.
