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Meditations on a Portrait from Seventeenth-Century Batavia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2006

Jean Gelman Taylor
Jean Gelman Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of History at the University of New South Wales. She may be contacted at: jeant@unsw.edu.au
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Abstract

A seventeenth-century painting, ‘Pieter Cnoll and His Family’ by J. J. Coeman, reveals a number of entry points from which Indonesian histories can be explored. Through a discussion of the painting and its subjects, a variety of issues ranging from VOC (United East India Company) policies and mestizo relationships to gender, labour and legal rights in VOC-controlled ports are discussed.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 23 - 41
Copyright
2006 The National University of Singapore

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