Memorial Damask Cloth Commemorating the Successful Dutch East Indies Flight and Paying Tribute to the Daring Pilots

Dijk, Koninklijke Weverij Van, 1924

The successful first trial flight in 1924 from the Netherlands to the East Indies unleashed a flood of chauvinist sentiments in the country. The Netherlands ruled the skies as it once ruled the seas, was the message. The pilot Jan van der Hoop was honoured with this napkin. The map below the depiction of the Fokker aircraft features all 22 stopovers on the route to Batavia.

  • Artwork typenapkin, charter
  • Object numberNG-2016-8-1
  • Dimensionsheight 80.5 cm x width 77 cm

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Memorial Damask Cloth Commemorating the Successful Dutch East Indies Flight and Paying Tribute to the Daring Pilots

  • Object type

  • Object number

    NG-2016-8-1

  • Description

    Volgens de oorkonde: Damast ter herinnering aan de welgeslaagde Nederland-Indië vlucht en als hulde aan de koene vliegers.

Creation

  • Creation

    • weverij: Dijk, Koninklijke Weverij Van, Eindhoven
    • after design by André Vlaanderen

  • Dating

    1924

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Material and technique

  • Dimensions

    height 80.5 cm x width 77 cm

This work is about

  • Subject

  • Place

  • Period

    1924

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Gift of the heirs of dr. A.N.J.Th. à Th. van der Hoop

  • Acquisition

    gift 2016-06-29

  • Copyright

    Public domain

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