The mass murder of the Chinese by the Dutch in the Chinese quarter of Batavia, after the discovery of the alleged betrayal, 9 October 1740. The streets and canals are full of the bodies of murdered Chinese. In the foreground the Chinese block is on fire, on the right the shelling with cannons of the Chinese captain's house marked by the pole with the snake, the captain trying to flee in women's clothes is captured, Murder of Chinese in Batavia, 1740., Jacob van der Schley, print maker: Jacob van der Schley, Adolf van der Laan, Northern Netherlands, 1761 - 1763, paper, etching, h 213 mm × w 290

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