The port entrance of Willemstad with the Government Palace, Prosper Crébassol, 1858 Canvas Print
The painting shows the port entrance of Willemstad (the beginning of the Sint Anna bay), as seen from the three-storey city house annex warehouse, located on the corner of handelskade and Breedestraat. On the left, between two strongholds of Fort Amsterdam, is the government house, the governor's home. Until 1861 this was also the meeting place of the Colonial Council and other colleges. In the middle of the government house is the gate that gives access to Fort Amsterdam. In the middle of the background you can see the Waterfort, equipped with cannons, a flagpole with the Dutch flag and an optical telegraph. In the foreground is the former Waaggebouw, in which the Spaar- en Beleenbank has been located since 1850. Above the gate hangs a green sign with the inscription: SAVINGS BANK. This gate gives access to the square in front of the government house. Several people have been painted on the square. Near the guardhouse of the Waterfort is a large amount of wood next to a cart. On the waterfront, mooring posts can be distinguished. An open sailing ship loaded with merchandise and a small sloop are moored at the quay, as well as a small tent boat. A bar greenhouse with ten rowing sailors and two officers has just left the quay. To the right in the background is the Riffort with a part of the Rif, on which the leprozenhuis stands. The round building in front of the Riffort is the pivot house with capstan built in 1831-1832, which served to stretch a chain in front of the entrance of the Sint Anna bay in times of danger of war.
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