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Towns and Landscapes
Hand-Colored Steel Engraving of Batavia 'Jakarta', Indonesia, Ca.1840
Batavia is now Jakarta.
£75
$100 · €90
Original print, not a reproduction
Ships worldwide from the Netherlands, insured and tracked. 14-day returns.
- Date
- 1840
- Sheet size
- 5.9 × 8.5 in (15 × 21.5 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Age-related toning. Minor wear, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
- Island
- Java
- Place names
- Batavia is now Jakarta
- Collection
- Towns and Landscapes
- Period
- Raffles to the Cultivation System, 1800 to 1849
- Stock no.
- f_26761942
- Color
- Hand colored
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Antique print titled 'Batavia'.
Steel engraving of Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia. Originates from 'Meyers Universum'.
Artists and Engravers: Joseph Meyer (May 9, 1796, June 27, 1856) was a German industrialist and publisher, most noted for his encyclopedia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Meyer operated very successfully as a publisher, employing a system of serial subscription to publications, which was new at that time. To this end he founded a company, Bibliographisches Institut, in Gotha in 1826. It published several editions of the Bible, works of classical literature ("Miniatur-Bibliothek der deutschen Classiker", "Groschen-Bibliothek"), atlases, the world in pictures on steel engravings ("Meyers Universum", 1833 to 61, 17 volumes in 12 languages with 80,000 subscribers all over Europe), and an encyclopaedia.
Good, age-related toning. Minor wear, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
