COLOSSUS OF RHODOS painting

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COLOSSUS OF RHODOS painting

Post by aukepalmhof » Sat Oct 28, 2017 8:41 pm

This miniature sheet is design after a painting made by the Japanese painter Kunitora around 1800, and most probably after he has seen a painting from the Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerk 1498 -1574 of the Colossus
Around 1800 the Dutch VOC had still a trading post at Dejima, Nagasaki and the only European country with a trading post in Japan. The trading post was the only contact Japan did have with the western world at that time.
The miniature sheet shows us the Colossus of Rhodes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Rhodes seen through Japanese eyes and most probably a Dutch VOC ship in the margin entering the port. The VOC ships were not sailing to the Mediterranean and the ship must be an imagination of the painter of a western ship he did known.
Grenadines of St Vincent 1989 $6 sgMS?, scott ?.
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