View of a street with canal, horse-drawn carriages, Europeans and natives in Batavia (Jakarta), on the island of Java, Indonesia, circa 1800, when it was a Dutch colony. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.

---

Size: 6081px × 4688px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1800s, 1835, 19th, abbildungen, batavia, bertuch, bilderbuch, bookseller, buildings, canal, carriage, century, colonial, complete, costume, european, friedrich, gallery, german, getreuen, goedsche, handcoloured, horse, illustration, indonesia, island, jakarta, java, kinder, lithograph, meissen, native, peoples, publisher, race, street, travel, trees, tribe, view, vollstaendige, wilhelm, writer, ölkergallerie