View of Colombo

Image

View of Colombo

Brandes, Jan

View of Colombo, seen from the slave island.

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Is part of:

Colombo

Creator

Brandes, Jan (draughtsman)

Period

1785

Material

paper

Technique

watercolour

Kind

drawing

Dimension

100 x 750 mm100 x 750 mm

Number

NG-379

Owner

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Tags

flora, building, survey / view

Inscription

gezigt van Colombo over het meertje, van 't zogenaamde Slaven Eijland af te zien 1784. / op Ceylon / door mij gecopieerd 1785 5 dec.

Sources and literature

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

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)