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Masked Javanese dance, topeng, on Batavia

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Masked Javanese dance, topeng, on Batavia

Brandes, Jan

Masked Javanese dance on Batavia.

Shown are three Javanese dancers, seated musicians and the audience in an open building of bamboo with roof.

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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)