Christina, dochter van een bewindhebber van de Westindische Compagnie, komt aan boord van een compagnieschip in aanraking met de Nederlandse slavenhandel.

Ten of de Jongh’s most influential articles on seventeenth-century Dutch painting are brought together in this volume: ‘Certain objects or motifs often serve a dual function. They operate as concrete, observable things while at the same time doing something totally different, namely expressing an idea, a moral, an intention, a joke or a situation.’