Chinese wajang performance in Batavia

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Chinese wajang performance in Batavia

Brandes, Jan

Chinese wajang performance in Batavia.

Top is a black-and-white drawing of a covered platform and spectators in the street; beneath that a drawing in colour of a platform.

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Is part of:

Jakarta

Creator

Brandes, Jan (draughtsman)

Period

ca. 1785

Material

paper

Technique

watercolour

Kind

drawing

Dimension

19,5 x 15,5 cm19,5 x 15,5 cm

Number

NG-1985-7-2-9

Owner

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Tags

Asians, Africans & Americans, play house / society, survey / view, Person, building

Inscription

Wajang os sineesche Commedie, word op een stellage gespeeld op de straat

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)