Title

Reception of the envoys of the King of Kandy by Governor Imam Falck, 1772. Creator: Carel Frederik Reimer.

Caption

Reception of the envoys of the King of Kandy by Governor Imam [sic] Falck, 1772. Iman Willem Falck, Governor of Zeylan (Dutch Ceylon, now Sri Lanka), hosts dignataries from the court of Kirti Sri Rajasinha of Kandy in the Great Reception Hall of the Governor's House in Colombo. 'Afbeelding der plegtige Audientie verleent door Zyn Weledele, Grootagbaare de Heer Gouverneur en Directeur van't Eyland Ceylon, etc. etc: aan't jaarlykse Gesandschap van den Koning van Candia, te Colombo'.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A84_466

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51,3Mb (3,5Mb) / 17,4in x 11,5in / 5222 x 3436 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe people male interior job man men India Indian meeting arts politics country candle candles chandelier chandeliers body bodies monarch art guy occupation museum Netherlands Dutch feet foot Sri Lanka color king lighting royal chairs political chair location century Colonial drawing profession inside mirror mirrors barefoot furniture royalty international relations concept attache servant bare feet watercolour metaphor South Asia Governor administrator Colour looking glass Indoors Colombo 18th century diplomat Eighteenth Century servants ambassador Ceylon Ceylonese colonialism Hindoostan imperialism imperialist Rijksmuseum sovereign TGN the body ambassadors attaché east meets west Imam paper Heritage Art Drawing commissary colonial administrator Low Countries Falck watercolour (paint) imperialists Carel Frederik Reimer Reimer Carel Frederik Iman Willem Falck Iman Willem Imam Falck Kirti Sri Rajasinha Rajasinha Kirti Sri Kirti Sri Rajasinha of Kandy