A Well-Governed Colony: Frans Post's Illustrations in Caspar Barlaeus's History of Dutch Brazil

Ernst van den Boogaart is a historian. He has published on the European expansion in the Atlantic area and Asia and was involved with historical exhibitions including Zo wijd de wereld strekt (Mauritshuis, 1979) about Dutch Brazil. Over the last few years he has concentrated on research into illustrated travel accounts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. See his Civil and Corrupt Asia. Image and Text in the Itinerario and the leones of Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Chicago 2003. Previous contributions to the Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum ‘Bij een Surinaamse beloningspenning uit 1837’, 25 (1977), pp. 6-23 and ‘Christophle le More, lijfwacht van Karel v?’ 53 (2005), pp. 413-33.