TY - JOUR
T1 - Pigments from the Zuiddorp (Zuytdorp) ship sculpture
T2 - red, white and blue?
AU - van Duivenvoorde, Wendy
AU - Kaiser, Bruce
AU - Megens, Luc
AU - van Bronswijk, Wilhelm
PY - 2015/2/25
Y1 - 2015/2/25
N2 - The Dutch East India Company ship Zuiddorp (also known as Zuytdorp) met its demise in 1712 at the base of steep cliffs along the Western Australian coast. Material from the shipwreck includes an extraordinary example of a caryatid herm from the ship's stern counter. A recent study of this sculpture and the pigments found on its surface demonstrates Zuiddorp's archaic stern construction and adornment, which is more of a late 17th-century, than an early 18th-century, Dutch Indiaman. This paper discusses the results of this study and emphasizes how the smallest pieces of evidence can broaden our understanding of contemporaneous regional Dutch East India Company shipbuilding practices.
AB - The Dutch East India Company ship Zuiddorp (also known as Zuytdorp) met its demise in 1712 at the base of steep cliffs along the Western Australian coast. Material from the shipwreck includes an extraordinary example of a caryatid herm from the ship's stern counter. A recent study of this sculpture and the pigments found on its surface demonstrates Zuiddorp's archaic stern construction and adornment, which is more of a late 17th-century, than an early 18th-century, Dutch Indiaman. This paper discusses the results of this study and emphasizes how the smallest pieces of evidence can broaden our understanding of contemporaneous regional Dutch East India Company shipbuilding practices.
KW - Dutch East India Company
KW - Western Australia
KW - Shipwrecks
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U2 - 10.1080/00794236.2015.1124196
DO - 10.1080/00794236.2015.1124196
M3 - Article
VL - 49
SP - 269
EP - 290
JO - Post-Medieval Archaeology
JF - Post-Medieval Archaeology
SN - 0079-4236
IS - 2
ER -