1 | Battle in the Bay of Bantam 1596, Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 1, Eerste voyagie, plate 13 | 9 |
2 | City of Bantam 1596, Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 1, Eerste voyagie, plate 16 | 10 |
3 | War vessel of Bantam, Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 1, Eerste Voyagie, plate 30 | 11 |
4 | Negotiations in Hitu 1599, Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 1, Tweede Voyagie, plate 13 | 16 |
5 | Dutch ships and Ternatan war vessels in the roadstead of Ternate 1599, Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 1, Tweede Voyagie, plate 25 | 18 |
6 | Sebalt de Weert killed in Ceylon 1603. Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 1, Oost-Indische reyse Van Waerwijck, plate 5 | 34 |
7 | Take-over of Portuguese Amboina 1605, Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 2, Oost-Indische reyse Van der Haghen, plate 12 | 35 |
8 | Conquest of the Portuguese fort on Tidore 1605. Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 2, Oost-Indische reyse Van der Haghen, plate 13 | 36 |
9 | View on Ternate’s east coast 1607, Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 2, Reyse naar Oost-Indien Matelief, plate 7 | 39 |
10 | View on Jayakatra 1607, Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 2, Reyse naar Oost-Indien Matelief, plate 4 | 44 |
11 | Pieter van den Broecke 1633, Frans Hals/Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB 23176x | 53 |
12 | Warriors of Banda, circa 1600, Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 1, Tweede Voyagie, plate 28 | 59 |
13 | Sortie during the siege of Batavia 1629, Anonymous/Montanus, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, p. 358 | 65 |
14 | Naval Battle in the roadstead of Goa 1638, Anonymous/Wieder, Monumenta Cartographica, Volume 5, plate 107 | 71 |
15 | View on Malakka 1676, Anonymous/Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB 50043 | 73 |
16 | Action on the river of Palembang 1659, Anonymous/Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB 47419-5681-2 | 81 |
17 | Gerard Hulft visits Raja Singa II 1655, Gonsales Appelmans/Rijksmuseum RP- P-1907-2352 | 85 |
18 | Surrender of Cochin to Rijklof Van Goens 1663, Gonsales Appelmans/Baldaeus, Nauwkeurige Beschryvinge, p. 121 | 89 |
19 | Fort Henricus in Solor 1656, Anonymous/Nationaal Archief HaNa VEL 1290 | 91 |
20 | Conquest of Loki in Amboina 1652, Anonymous/Bibliotheque Royale Bruxelles Ms 17982: Livinus Bor, ‘Jaer-boecken van de Amboinsche oorlogen’, f. 35 | 98 |
Battle at sea with Makassarese near the coast of Buton 1653, Anonymous/Bor, Amboinse oorlogen, plate 201 | 100 | |
22 | View on Malayu in Ternate, circa 1660, with Spanish Gamlamo in the upper left corner of the picture, Anonymous/Valentijn, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, Volume 1.2, plate bb and cc | 105 |
23 | The successful siege of Castle Zeelandia by the Ming loyalist Coxinga 1662, Albrecht Herport/Honoré Naber, Albrecht Herport | 112 |
24 | Expedition of Johan van Dam to Makassar 1660, Anonymous/Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB 47462 | 115 |
25 | King Raja Singa II of Kandy, circa 1670, Robert Knox in Knox, Eyland Ceylon, n.p. | 120 |
26 | View on Japara, circa 1650, Anonymous/Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB 47461 | 124 |
27 | View on Bantam 1676, Anonymous/Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB 47460 | 130 |
28 | Mansion of the late Governor-General Johannes Camphuijs on Edam Island in Batavia 1767, Johannes Rach/Rijksmuseum NG-40-D | 137 |
29 | Plan of the Expedition of Govert Cnoll to escort Amangkurat III to Surabaya 1708, G. van Broekhuizen/Rijksmuseum RP-P-1988-60 | 143 |
30 | View on Gamron in Persia, circa 1740, Johann Wolfgang Heydt/Koninklijke Bibliotheek 2102 A7, p. 292 | 146 |
31 | View on Cochin, circa 1740, Johann Wolfgang Heydt/Koninklijke Bibliotheek 2102 A7, p. 289 | 152 |
32 | Chinese Massacre in the City of Batavia 1740, Adolf van der Laan/Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-75356 | 156 |
33 | House Weltevreden built by the late Governor-General Jacob Mossel, circa 1770, Johannes Rach/Perpustakaan Nasional BW 51 | 161 |
34 | Funeral procession of Governor-General Jacob Mossel 1761, Anonymous/ Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB 75363x | 163 |
35 | Square in front of the kraton of the Sultan of Yogyakarta, circa 1770, Johannes Rach/Perpustakaan Nasional VL 32 | 166 |
36 | View of Castle Rotterdam and the settlement of Vlaardingen in Makassar, circa 1750, Anonymous/Rijksmuseum RP-T-00 3236 | 169 |
37 | World traveller Cornelis de Bruin visits Sultan Zainul Abidin of Bantam, circa 1705, Cornelis de Bruijn in De Bruijn, Reizen, plate 214 | 171 |
38 | View on Malakka, circa 1720, Anonymous/Valentijn, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, Volume 5.1, p. 291 | 176 |
39 | View on the fort Matara, circa 1760, Anonymous/Rijksmuseum RP-T-00 3226 | 180 |
40 | Charter of the Ostend Company 1722, Anonymous/Commons Wikimedia | 184 |
41 | Plan of the EIC fort Saint George in Madras taken by the French 1746, John Roque/Commons Wikimedia | 185 |
The harbour castle of Surat, circa 1755, Anonymus/Rijksmuseum RP-P-1907 2820 | 188 | |
43 | Town hall and market square of Kaapstad 1764, Johannes Rach/Commons Wikimedia | 194 |
44 | Squadron of Jacob Pieter van Braam at the roadstead of Malakka 1784, Engel Hoogerheiden/Rijks Kunsthistorische Documentatie 0656 | 201 |
45 | Colonel Theobald von Hűgel, commander of the Wűrttemberg Regiment at the Cape and on Ceylon, circa 1790, Anonymous/Commons Wikimedia | 206 |
46 | Departure of Stadtholder Willem V from the Netherlands 1795, Jan Bulthuis/Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB 64108 | 209 |
47 | Rear-Admiral of the British Royal Navy Peter Rainier, circa 1800, Thomas Hickey/College of Optometrists, London | 211 |
48 | Plan of the Saldanha Bay with the Batavian squadron under Rear-Admiral Engelbert Lucas blockaded by a British fleet 1796, Anonymus/Nationaal Scheepvaartmuseum SNSM 19961597 | 213 |
49 | British take-over of the Cape of Good Hope with view on Kaapstad (above) and the Battle of Blaauwberg (below) 1806, Commons Wikimedia | 220 |
50 | Strategic locations in the Sunda Strait, including Meeuwen Bay, circa 1810, Jan Theunis Busscher/Nationaal Archief HaNa 4.MIKO, Jan Theunis Busscher 62 | 224 |
51 | Major-General Samuel Auchmuty of the Madras Army, the victor at Meester Cornelis, circa 1810, Antoine Cardon/Scottish National Portrait Gallery EPV 620.1 | 227 |
52 | Letter of credit of Niels Ipsen Salton of Oldenburg who would be sailing to the East as a corporal in the service of the VOC 1779, Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum | 236 |
53 | Roadstead of fort Rammekens in Zeeland 1779, Karel Frederik Bendorp/Zeeuws Archief HTA Vlissingen 1872 | 240 |
54 | Inner hospital in Batavia City, circa 1770, Johannes Rach/Perpustakaan Nasional BW 15 | 242 |
55 | Amboinese hongi or kora-kora fleet 1702, Anonymous/Valentijn, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, Volume 2.1, plate XI.III | 246 |
56 | Mardijker man and woman, circa 1675, Anonymous/Nieuhof, Gedenkwaerdige zee en lantreize, p. 216 | 248 |
57 | Buginese and Amboinese warriors, circa 1675, Anonymous/Valentijn, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, Volume 2.1, plate xl | 251 |
58 | VOC personnel on the deck of an outward-bound VOC ship, circa 1780, Jan Brandes/Rijksmuseum NG-7-2-109 | 256 |
59 | VOC military men in Coromandel escorting Governor Gerrit van Westrenen, circa 1720, Anonymous/Nationaal Archief HaNa 4.AANW, 221 (detail) | 262 |
Instruments for calculating the position of a ship on the open seas in a textbook for the education of ships’ officers, circa 1680, Mattheus Rogiers/Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum Ms 2172: Mattheus Rogiers, ‘Begin van de Groote Zeevaert’, p. 28 | 266 | |
61 | Schematic drawing of a VOC square-stern ship, circa 1625, Bataviawerf/VOC-Kenniscentrum | 273 |
62 | VOC square-stern ship Candia of the Rotterdam Chamber 1790, Gerrit Groenewegen/Zuiderzee Museum 27093 | 274 |
63 | VOC shipyard in Rembang 1772, Johannes Rach/Perpustakaan Nasional Indonesia BW 66 | 278 |
64 | Roadstead of Batavia as viewed from the Water Castle, circa 1775, Johannes Rach/De Loos-Haaxman, Johannes Rach, p. 51 | 280 |
65 | Castle Oranje on Ternate 1651, Anonymous/Nationaal Archief, HaNa 4.VEL 1313 | 284 |
66 | Castle Geldria in Pulikat, circa 1670, Anonymous/Baldaeus, Nauwkeurige Beschryvinge, p. 158 | 288 |
67 | Warehouse of the Chamber Amsterdam 1770, Hermanus Petrus Schouten/Rijksmuseum RP-P-OA-25-65 | 291 |
68 | Shipyard and warehouse of the VOC Chamber Zeeland in Middelburg, second part of the eighteenth century, Karel Fredrik Bendorp/Zeeuws Archief ZI-II-288 | 297 |
69 | Saltpetre production in the VOC’s factory at Chopra in Bengal, circa 1670, Nicolaas de Graaff/Universiteits Bibliotheek Leiden, Collection Bodel Nijenhuis 314 I N 107 | 300 |
70 | Craftsmen’s quarter in the southeast of Batavia City 1740, Johann Wolfgang Heydt/Koninklijke Bibliotheek 2102 A 7, p. 94 | 305 |
71 | Amsterdammer and Wieringer lighters used to connect the city of Amsterdam with the roadstead of Texel, circa 1650, Reinier Nooms/Gemeentearchief Amsterdam 10094 | 310 |
72 | Outer hospital in Rijswijk, south of Batavia City, circa 1770, Johannes Rach/Perpustakaan Nasional BW 48 | 317 |
73 | View inside Jaffnapatnam Castle 1735, Johann Wolfgang Heydt/Koninklijke Bibliotheek 2102 A7, p. 256 | 322 |
74 | Blockhouse Wantrouw on Manipa in Amboina, circa 1710, Anonymous/Valentijn, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, Volume 2.1, plate v | 328 |
75 | Siege and conquest of Asahudi in Amboina 1655, Anonymous/Bibliotheque Royale Bruxelles, Ms 17982: Livinus Bor, ‘Jaer-boecken van de Amboinsche oorlogen’, f. 109 | 334 |
76 | Siege and conquest of Laala in Amboina, showing siege works of the VOC, 1654, Anonymous/Bibliotheque Royale Bruxelles, Ms 17982: Livinus Bor, ‘Jaer-boecken van de Amboinsche oorlogen’, f. 69 | 337 |
Battle near Cape Lahay on Roti in Timor 1688, Anonymous/Mitchell Library Sydney | 341 | |
78 | Three soldiers from Bantam, circa 1600, Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 1, Eerste voyagie, plate 23 | 348 |
79 | Kora-kora of Titaway, the flagship of the Amboina hongi, from which the Governor of Amboina used to lead operations, 1702, Anonymous/Valentijn, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, Volume 2.1, plate xi, 31 | 350 |
80 | Superintendent Arnold de Vlaming van Oudshoorn supervising the cutting in pieces of the corpse of the Ternatan grandee Saidi, his main opponent in the Great Amboina War, 1655, Anonymous/Valentijn, Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, Volume 1, Molukse Zaaken, p. 319 | 355 |
81 | High Government meeting in Castle Batavia, circa 1735, Johann Wolfgang Heydt/Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 2102 A7, p. 37 | 359 |
82 | East Indies House of the Rotterdam Chamber 1702, Petrus Schenk/Stadsarchief Rotterdam 4080, RI 1130 | 367 |
83 | Schematic map showing the VOC trading factories as well as sovereign- and suzerain-ruled provinces, circa 1760, designed by Gerrit Knaap | 372 |
84 | Stadtholder Willem V meets the Gentlemen XVII at the Amsterdam Chamber 1768, Simon Fokke/Gemeentearchief Amsterdam 10097–14115 | 375 |
85 | Bay of Chincheu in southwest China, theatre of unsuccessful campaigns by the VOC against the local Ming authorities, circa 1630, Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 2, Journaal Seyger van Rechteren, plate 1 | 382 |
86 | Portuguese galleons off Malakka set on fire by the VOC 1606, Anonymous/Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, Volume 2, Reyse naar Oost-Indien Matelief, plate 3 | 387 |