Johan NIEUHOFF

Fish Market of Batavia

      Copper plate engraving with modern hand coloring. Image measures 11.5" x 13.75". Johan Nieuhoff was a Dutch traveler with the Dutch East Indies and Dutch West Indies Companies, best known for his extensive trips through in Brazil, India and China. This piece is from the English posthumous edition of "Voyages and Travels into Brasil and the East Indies...". The National Library of Australia attributes this edition to A&J Churchill, publishers in London. View shows a busy day at the fish market along the water of the Dutch settlement in Batavia (modern day Jakarta). [Publisher: -]