Market and trade in Bantam
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artist: Romeyn de Hooghe
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Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, public domain
Market and trade in Bantam, etching, ca. 1682–1733, artist: Romeyn de Hooghe (1645–1708); source: Vries, Simon de: Curieuse aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost en West-Indische verwonderens-waerdige dingen, Utrecht 1682, vol. 4, p. 547, digital copy: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.602973, public domain.
The illustration from 1682 shows the market at the port of Bantam on Java, Indonesia. It depicts the traders and their various goods as well as the mosque, the castle and the city of Bantam in the background.
Market and trade in Bantam, etching, ca. 1682–1733, artist: Romeyn de Hooghe (1645–1708); source: Vries, Simon de: Curieuse aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost en West-Indische verwonderens-waerdige dingen, Utrecht 1682, vol. 4, p. 547, digital copy: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.602973, public domain.