Detail Puzzlewood no665 860pc Cornelis Van Den Bogaerde Gives An Audience Golconda Miniature c1687 21x16in Cut c June 2018 DSC01514
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Puzzlewood no665 cJune 2018 860pc Cornelis Van Den Bogaerde Gives An Audience, from Golconda Miniature c1687 21x16in. Earlet Line-Cut.
Cornelis van den Bogaerde, head of Dutch trading post in Hyderabad in the Golconda Sultanate, in French style clothing, is holding a meeting here with some local Hindu merchants. Behind Cornelis stands a Indonesian servant, also in Western clothing, who holds a fan of peacock feathers and a branch from a fruit tree - perhaps apricots - (an allusion to the origins of the surname of Cornelis van den Bogaerde (Dutch for an orchard).
Detail Puzzlewood no665 860pc Cornelis Van Den Bogaerde Gives An Audience Golconda Miniature c1687 21x16in Cut c June 2018 DSC01514
Detail
Puzzlewood no665 cJune 2018 860pc Cornelis Van Den Bogaerde Gives An Audience, from Golconda Miniature c1687 21x16in. Earlet Line-Cut.
Cornelis van den Bogaerde, head of Dutch trading post in Hyderabad in the Golconda Sultanate, in French style clothing, is holding a meeting here with some local Hindu merchants. Behind Cornelis stands a Indonesian servant, also in Western clothing, who holds a fan of peacock feathers and a branch from a fruit tree - perhaps apricots - (an allusion to the origins of the surname of Cornelis van den Bogaerde (Dutch for an orchard).