Touring the great painting collections of the Netherlands India Condition: a few minor marginal

Condition: a few minor marginal chips and tears

likely from a personal sketchbook or commonplace book engaging with contemporary debates about slavery

Particularly noteworthy are: (1) the memorandum’s consistent emphasis on hydrography and tides as operational variables (rather than mere descriptive geography)

where they were printed to disseminate propagandist information

and explicitly forbids the company from obstructing this temporary free trade

Touring the great painting collections of the Netherlands India Condition: a few minor marginalVoyage en Hollande. [Brussels], 1791. 8. 66, [10] pp. Contemporary pink paper boards. Manuscript diary of a connoisseur describing a journey through the Netherlands, begun in June 1791, with visits to numerous important painting collections. The journey begins and ends in Brussels, making it likely that the anonymous author was a resident of that city. It recounts visits to places in present day Belgium (Mechelen and Antwerp) before continuing through