Name: Antique Print-FIGHT-VOC-CHOROMANDEL-INDIA-NATIVES-Schouten-1775
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Antique Print-FIGHT-VOC-CHOROMANDEL-INDIA-NATIVES-Schouten-1775

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XXIII – Plate: ‘Quade bejegening.’ (Bad encounter.) The Dutch of the VOC are attacked by mad women of Jentynen / Gentynen in the year 1661, Choromandel, India, while drinking water from a well.

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‘XXIII’

Copperplate engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 19,2 x 25,8 cm. (7,6 x 10,2 inch). Image size: 14,8 x 20 cm. (5,8 x 7,9 inch).

From: ‘Wouter Schoutens, Reys-Togten naar en door Oost-Indien …’ (Wouter Schoutens travels into the East Indies), 1775 edition with newly engraved plates, published in Amsterdam.

Made by an anonymous engraver after ‘Wouter Schouten’.

Condition: Very good, given age. Original fold as issued General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: FIGHT-VOC-CHOROMANDEL-INDIA-NATIVES

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