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P.T. 巴纳姆:奋斗与胜利·补录 475
P.T. 巴纳姆《奋斗与胜利》· Struggles and Triumphs · 领导
We visited the Hague, the capital and the finest city in Holland. It is handsomely and regularly laid out, and contains a beautiful theatre, a public picture-gallery, which contains some of the best works of Vandyke, Paul Potter, and other Dutch masters, while the museum is especially rich in rarities from China and Japan. When we arrived at the Hague, Mr. August Belmont, who had been the United States Minister at that court, had just gone home; but I heard many encomiums passed upon him and his family, and I was told some pretty good stories of his familiarity with the king, and of the “jolly times” these two personages frequently enjoyed together. I did not miss visiting the great government museum, as I wished particularly to see the rich collection of Japan ware and arms, made during the many years when the Dutch carried on almost exclusively the entire foreign trade with the Japanese. I spent several days in minutely examining these curious manufactures of a people, who were then almost as little known to nations generally as are the inhabitants of the planet Jupiter.
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定位:Additional excerpt 475 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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巴纳姆一行去了海牙,那是荷兰的首都,也是荷兰最漂亮的城市。城市布局整齐,有漂亮的剧院和公共画廊,藏有凡·戴克、保卢斯·波特等荷兰大师的精品,博物馆里还有很多中国和日本的珍品。他们到海牙时,曾任美国驻荷兰公使的奥古斯特·贝尔蒙特刚回国,但巴纳姆听到很多对他的赞扬,还有他和国王关系亲密、常一起寻欢作乐的故事。巴纳姆特意去看了政府博物馆,因为那里有荷兰人多年垄断对日贸易期间收集的日本瓷器和武器。他花了好几天仔细研究这些当时西方人几乎一无所知的日本工艺品。这说明,了解一个地方要去看它的收藏和贸易历史,那里藏着别人不知道的信息。
上下文
巴纳姆在自传中记录19世纪中期访问荷兰海牙的经历,当时荷兰是欧洲对日贸易的主要窗口。
今日一问
你有没有花时间研究过一个地方的特有收藏或贸易历史,从中发现别人忽略的机会?
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