These illustrations are taken from one of two journals kept by a German recruit to the Dutch East India Company. Jörg Franz Müller was a gunsmith who enlisted as a midshipman aboard vessels of the Dutch East India Company that sailed between Europe and Batavia (in Indonesia) from 1669 to 1682.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Dutch East India Company's drawings of people, animals and plants from Asia and Africa
These illustrations are taken from one of two journals kept by a German recruit to the Dutch East India Company. Jörg Franz Müller was a gunsmith who enlisted as a midshipman aboard vessels of the Dutch East India Company that sailed between Europe and Batavia (in Indonesia) from 1669 to 1682.
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