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Interior of Jan Brandes' house

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Interior of Jan Brandes' house

Brandes, Jan

Interior of Jan Brandes' house on Batavia.

The man seated at the table is Jan Brandes himself. The child is his son and the woman is Roosje, a domestic slave.

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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)