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Evening party on Batavia

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Evening party on Batavia

Brandes, Jan

Evening party at Batavia.

Four European men, of whom three wear an evening cap, sitting at a table smoking their long clay pipes. A slave stands by the table. In the background right is a second table at which is seated an Indo-European woman. She has a sirih box (betel container) in front of her.

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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)