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View of the Tangerang field entrenchment near Batavia

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View of the Tangerang field entrenchment near Batavia

Rach, Johannes

View of the Tangerang fort near Batavia, anno 2002 a shopping centre in the town of Tangerang, 30 kilometres west of Jakarta.

The fort has bastions on both sides, the right hand one has a wooden clock tower.

Depicted in the foreground left is an Indonesian soldier (pradjurit) and an Indonesian lady with a furled pajong (parasol).

In the centre a European hunter with hunting dog.

Cf. National Library of Indonesia, inv. nr. BG 01.

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Sources and literature

Bruin, M. de en B. Kist, Johannes Rach 1720-1783. Artist in Indonesia and Asia (2001)