Posed on the terrace of their house in Batavia (Jakarta) are Pieter Cnoll, his half-Japanese wife, Cornelia van Nieuwenrode, their daughters Catharina (with a fan and dog) and Hester (with an ivory box), and two Javanese servants. Cnoll, a senior merchant with the Dutch East India Company, kept the company’s books in Asia. He belonged to the top ranks of European elite in ...
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