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Description (auto translated): The painting shows the harbor entrance from Willemstad (the beginning of the St. Anna Bay), from the three-storey town house adjoining warehouse, located at the corner of the Handelskade and Broad Street. Links between two bastions of Fort Amsterdam is the government building, the residence of the governor. Until 1861 this was also the meeting place of the Colonial Council and other colleges. In the midst of the government building is the entrance gate to Fort Amsterdam. Middle in the background is seen the Waterfort, air guns, a flagpole with the Dutch flag and an optical telegraph. In the foreground, the former weighing house, where the Savings and Lending Bank has been established since 1850. Above the gate hangs a green sign with lettering: SAVINGS BANK. This gate opens onto the square in front of the government building. On the square are painted different people. Near the guardhouse of the Water Fort is a large amount of wood next to a cart. On the waterfront are more poles to distinguish. A longboat, an open sailing boat, laden with merchandise and a small boat moored to the quay, as well as a small tent boat. A large roeisloep ten rowing sailors and two officers just left the dock. Right in the background the Riffort is a part of the Rif, where the leper colony state. The round building for Riffort it in 1831-1832 built cottage with spindle capstan, which served to stretch a chain at the entrance of St. Anna Bay in times of war danger. Willemstad (Curaçao)? H 94 cm x W 133 cm
SKU: 268465
