Dutch Soldiers, Suriname, ca. 1831
Source
Pierre Jacques Benoit, Voyage a Surinam . . . cent dessins pris sur nature par l'auteur (Bruxelles, 1839), fig. 28. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Description
Soldiers of the Dutch garrison, including one in the company composed of free people of color. Benoit (1782-1854), a Belgian artist, visited Suriname around 1831 and apparently stayed for several months. The 100 lithographs in his book (hand colored in the John Carter Brown copy), accompanied by textual descriptions of varying detail, are derived from drawings he made during his visit, which included time in Paramaribo, the capital, as well as trips into the interior visiting Maroons and Amerindians. Forty of his lithographs, with our translations from the French text, are shown on this website.
Creator
Benoit, Pierre Jacques
Date Created
1831
Language
French
Rights
Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Identifier
BEN-H
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