Indien: Strasse in Bombay (India: Street in Bombay)

Circa 1860s

Chromolithograph on paper laid on board

Print size: 9.4 x 13.3 in (24.1 x 34 cm)
Sheet size: 17.9 x 21.6 in (45.5 x 55 cm)

With the Berlin Publisher's label of "Verlag von R. Wagner" with title and printing details pasted on the back.

This was one of the last HIGH-END prints made of Bombay (1870s), using a late printing technique called Chromolithography, which gave it the semblance of a watercolour painting.

The present lot depicts a wide street in Bombay (possibly Kalbadevi Road), India, after a watercolour by Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-1869). Born in Gdansk, Hildebrandt was a frequent traveler to the Middle East, India, Singapore, Siam (Thailand), Macao, Hong Kong, China, The Philippines, Japan and the United States. He worked mainly in watercolours, and his paintings were exhibited in London in 1866 and at the Crystal Palace in 1868, just a year before his death in Berlin. A folio of chromolithographs, mounted in imitation of watercolour presentation, was published as 'Reise um die Erde' (Journey around the World).

This work will be shipped unframed

NON-EXPORTABLE