Gouvernement, kasteelkerk en dragonderwacht binnen het kasteel te Batavia

Gouvernement, kasteelkerk en dragonderwacht binnen het kasteel te Batavia

NG-1985-7-3-145

Gezicht te Batavia. Rechts het gouvernement, links de dragonderwacht van de Gouverneur-Generaal, op de voorgrond Europeanen met tot slaaf gemaakte bedienden met pajongs. Centraal de kasteelkerk

inscription: ‘Le gouvernement a Batav’

• draftsman (artist): Jan Brandes, Batavia
• after drawing by Johannes Rach, Batavia

1779 - 1785

penseel in grijs over schets in potlood

height 361 mm x width 522 mm

purchase 1985-05-02

Public domain

? Collection of the artist; his daughters, Johanna Maria Brandes (1792-1813) and Charlotta Constantia Brandes (1796-1870), Skälsebo;{De Bruijn/Raben 2004, p. 93.} by descent to Erik Kellberg (1883-1960);{De Bruijn/Raben 2004, p. 93.} ? to Brite-Louise Mangs-Kellberg;{File RMA.}…; anonymous sale, London (Sotheby’s), 2 May 1985 sqq., no. 216, £ 50,000, with xx other drawings, to the dealer W. Graham Arader III, New York, for the Rijksmuseum, in exchange for eighteen drawings that were part of this lot, 1985

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