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Batavia

The Fan Museum

The Fan Museum
London, United Kingdom

Fan with ivory sticks.  The double paper leaf is painted on the recto with a view of the Cape of Good Hope with Table Mountain seen in the distance. The verso is painted with a view of shipping off the coast of Batavia, capital city of the Dutch East Indies (modern day Jakarta).

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  • Title: Batavia
  • Date Created: Late Seventeenth Century
  • Location: The Netherlands
  • Physical Dimensions: 27 cm
  • Type: Fan
  • Medium: Ivory, paint, paper
The Fan Museum

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