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| Date |
1938 |
| Place |
Kraton Kesultanan Yogyakarta |
| Subject | |
| Category | |
| Creator |
Kaswardjo |
| Current holder | |
| Link | |
| Item number |
KITLV 42953 |
| Description from source |
Bezoek tijdens hun toernee door Nederlands-Indië van Lord Gowry (Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven), gouverneur-generaal van Australië, en Lady Gowry (Zara Hore-Ruthven Pollok) aan sultan Hamengkoe Boewono VIII te Jogjakarta; Voorste rij v.l.n.r.: 1 Ratoe Tjondro, 2 mevrouw van Kesteren, 3 Ratoe Dewi, 4 mevrouw W.C. Pesman-Kuiler, 5 mevrouw M. Bijleveld-Loze, 6 Lord Gowry (brigade-generaal Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven), 7 (naar achteren) Th.P. Galistin, conservator van het mueum Sonoboedojo te Jogjakarta, 8 sultan Hamengkoe Boewono VIII, 9 gouverneur van Jogjakarta J. Bijleveld, 10 Lady Gowry (Zara Hore-Ruthven Pollok), 11 Ratoe Pembajoen, 12 Kolonel J.J. Pesman, 13 Pakoe Alam VIII, 14 kolonel C.O. van Kesteren, 15 luitenant-kolonel P. Scholten. Depicted: Scholten, P.; Ratoe Tjondro; Ratoe Pembajoen; Ratoe Dewi; Pesman, J.J.; Pesman, mevrouw [...]; Pakoe Alam VIII; Kesteren, C.O. van; Hamengkoe Boewono VIII; Gowry, Lady; Gowry, Lord; Galestin, Th.P.; Bijleveld-Loze, M.; Bijleveld, J. Presumably by: Kas, R.Pr. [Kaswardjo, R.B.Pr.] (Jogjakarta). Gedateerd aan achterzijde 4 april 1938, in afwijking van het stempel 18 april 1938 aan de voorzijde dat mogelijk de afdruk dateert. Opgenomen in: De laatste Gouverneur van Java / Wouter Abbenhuis. - Cuijk : eigen beheer, 1996. - afbeelding 7 [boven]. |
The First Earl of Gowrie, Alexander Hore-Ruthven https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gowrie-first-earl-of-6441, was the only Governor General of Australia to make a state visit to the Netherlands East Indies, in 1938. He was received in Batavia (now Jakarta) by the Dutch Governor General, Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alidius_Tjarda_van_Starkenborgh_Stachouwer. Of greater interest than the meeting of the two Governors General in Batavia was Lord Gowrie’s visit to Yogyakarta, where, as this photograph shows, he was received with full honours by the Sultan, Hamengkubuwono VIII.
Also of note is the presence at the reception of Th. P. Galestin, who was cultural advisor and head of the Sånå Budåyå Museum. Galestin, an Armenian, later became a curator at the Colonial Institute Museum in Amsterdam (which later became the Tropen Museum), and then a professor at Leiden University. He was a significant figure in Indonesian art history.
[Although the colonial name at the time was ‘the Netherlands East Indies’, Indonesian nationalists had in 1928 proclaimed the Youth Oath that declared their homeland was ‘Indonesia’. Prior to that the Indonesian Students’ Association in the Netherlands (Perhimpunan Indonesia) and the Communist Party of Indonesia (Partai Komunis Indonesia) was already using the term.]