Traitors are skewered alive after the fall of Baticaloa

Anoniem / Anonymous / Waasbergen, Johannes Janssonius

Traitors are skewered alive after the fall of Baticaloa on May 18, 1638.

The Dutch had joined forces with the inhabitants of Ceylon against the Portuguese. Subsequently the Dutchman Willem Jacobsz Coster became commander of the fort at Baticaloa.

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Is part of:

Batticaloa

Creator

Anoniem / Anonymous (engraver / etcher)

Waasbergen, Johannes Janssonius (publisher)

Period

ca. 1672

Material

paper

Technique

copperplate printing

Kind

Dimension

13 x 17 cm13 x 17 cm

Number

189 A 6 deel II, p. 56

Owner

Koninklijke Bibliotheek

Sources and literature

Baldaeus, Philippus, Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel: Derzelver aangrenzende Ryken, en het machtige Eyland Ceylon (1672)

Silva, R.K. de en W.G.M. Beumer, Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon 1602 - 1796 (1988)