Fort Galle, Cornelis Steiger, c. 1710
Cornelis Steiger

Fort Galle

c. 1710 · Drawing

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Where is “Fort Galle” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Source
The museum

About the work

Colombo, Gallen, and Jaffna were the most important towns for the VOC on Sri Lanka. The first sight to greet those approaching Colombo from the sea was the governor’s residence, with a church and the VOC’s adjacent wharf. Behind the palace sprawled a large garden where vegetables were grown

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Accession number
RP-T-1902-A-4669

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