Diorama of the Waterfront of Paramaribo, Gerrit Schouten, 1820 Canvas Print
The diorama shows the Waterfront of Paramaribo as it looked in 1820. We see the quay with a shoemaker, a fabric shop and some stately houses for the qualified bourgeoisie of Paramaribo. Under a tree stands a group of enslaved men, briefly Down the road, a man in a horse-drawn carriage. On the quayside there is a lot of flanking and shopping. The Waterfront was a central place in the city as the meeting point of trade by sea and inland shipping over the rivers towards the plantations. The four ships that lie on the quayside and take the entire first plan of the diorama, illustrate this function of the Waterfront strikingly due to the diversity in ship types. On the far left a seagoing merchant ship (brigantijn) anchored, to the right of which you can see a pondo with a dinghy. These simple ships with a banana leaf deck were used by locals for the transport of goods. With the tent boat that occupies a central place on the diorama and prominently carries the Dutch flag, plantation owners and their family members moved across the Suriname River. On the far right a small sailboat used for the transhipment of goods and transport of passengers.
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