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Diorama of a Du, Dance Celebration…

Gerrit Schouten, 1830, NG-2005-24

The scene in the dance tent is a ‘du’, a role-play event with music and dancing, held once every year on the plantations. Both players and audience were slaves. The main character was the ‘Afrankeri’, the narrator, left. The man in the red suit on the right is playing the king. Europeans in Suriname…

On display in room 1.17

Javanese Court Officials

anonymous, c. 1820 - c. 1870, painting, NG-2010-39

Clothes make the man, so too in Indonesia. These are not actual portraits, but types. In addition to revealing the region these men come from, the meticulously painted clothes and batik motifs also provide information about their rank and status. These proud, confident figures are unusual: in…

On display in room 1.17

Plaque depicting an interior with…

anonymous, c. 1770 - c. 1775, AK-NM-6620-D

On display in room 1.5

The Plum Garden at Kameido Shrine

Hiroshige (I) , Utagawa, 1857, print, RP-P-1956-743

Two Studies of a Shepherd Resting

Adriaen van de Velde, 1666 - 1671, drawing, RP-T-1885-A-499

The Trading Post at Dejima

anonymous, c. 1840, hanging scroll, NG-1977-4

Fukami Jikyu in maanlicht

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1887, print, RP-P-1983-391

Vrouw met kind

Kajita Hanko, 1900 - 1917, print, RP-P-1997-95