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Soldiers from Kandy

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Soldiers from Kandy

Brandes, Jan

Soldiers from Kandy.

Earlier it was thought that the figures depicted in these illustration were lascars, Singhalese soldiers in the service of the VOC. It is unclear where and when this tableau was drawn.

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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)