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Those seeking justice at the Dessave on Colombo

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Those seeking justice at the Dessave on Colombo

Brandes, Jan

People seeking recourse to law at the Dessave on Colombo.

The 'free' servant is dressed in white and wears his hair in a bun on the left of his head.

Left, a papaya tree.

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Sources and literature

Bruijn, M. de en R. Raben, The world of Jan Brandes, 1743-1808: Drawings of a Dutch traveller in Batavia, Ceylon and Southern Africa (2004)