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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
21 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
42 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
60 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
77 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