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Envoys of the king of Kandy and Singhalese VOC officers at Colombo

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Envoys of the king of Kandy and Singhalese VOC officers at Colombo

Brandes, Jan

Envoys of the king of Kandy and Singhalese VOC officers at Colombo.

The figures (on the left the Singhalese VOC officers and on the right the envoys of the king of Kandy) are grouped around a showpiece bearing the VOC emblem.

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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)