Title: Aide-de-Camp to the Ambassador of Siam to Batavia

Description

• The young man depicted in this carte-de-visite photograph was the aide-de-camp to the ambassador of the Kingdom of Siam in the Dutch colonial capital of Batavia (present-day Jakarta). Siam established diplomatic relations with the Dutch East India Company as early as 1609, and the relationship continued after the government of the Netherlands took over governing the Dutch East Indies from the company. The photograph was taken by the studio of Woodbury & Page, which was established in 1857 by the British photographers Walter Bentley Woodbury and James Page. The photograph is from the collections of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden.

Photographer

• Page, James
• Woodbury, Walter B. (Walter Bentley) (1834-1885)

Publication Information

• Woodbury & Page, Java

Place

• Southeast Asia > Indonesia > Jakarta

Time

• 1850 CE - 1899 CE

Topic

• Social sciences > Political science > International relations

Additional Subjects

• Military personnel

Type of Item

• Prints, Photographs

Physical Description

• 10.5 x 6 centimeters

Institution

• Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and the Caribbean Studies KITLV