The Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie), chartered in 1602 with a monopoly on Dutch trade east of the Cape of Good Hope. It governed the Dutch East Indies until it was dissolved in 1799.

Who were the Governors-General?

The heads of the Company's government in Batavia, from Pieter Both (1610) onward, who ruled the Company's possessions in Asia.

Collection

The Company

The Dutch East India Company and its successors: portraits of the Governors-General, the castle and bastions of Batavia, the fleets that sailed for the Indies from 1595, and the forts, sieges and wars the Company recorded.

151 sheets

By islandJava 56 Sumatra 12 Borneo 3 Celebes 4 Moluccas 17 Lesser Sunda 3 New Guinea 1

By periodThe spice race 11 The Company 92 Raffles to the Cultivation System 9 Netherlands Indies 14

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