description description

Death sentence at Patani

Image

Death sentence at Patani

Anoniem / Anonymous

The picture shows a group of men and a couple of women. In the centre a man with a dagger alongside a man who falls to the ground mortally wounded with blood coursing from his breast. Most of the men wear turbans. To the left a woman sinks to the ground. The picture shows the sentence meted out to whoremongers being carried out.

According to the index in 'Begin ende Voortgang', the illustration is entitled: Straffe der Hoereerders in Patana.

Please contact Rijksmuseum Amsterdam for reuse and copyrights.

Sources and literature

Commelin, Isaac, Begin ende Voortgangh / van de Vereenighde Nederlandsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie: Vervatende De Voornaemste Reysen / by de Inwoonderen derselver Provincien derwaerts gedaen. (1646)