Street Scene of Old Bombay

Eduard Hildebrandt (1818–69) was a German painter of repute who travelled on a world tour from 1862–64, which included visits to the Middle East, India, Asia and the U.S. He worked mainly in watercolours. A folio of his paintings from his world voyage was published as chromolithographs in 1864 in Berlin. The original watercolours from the voyage were exhibited in London in 1866 and at an exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1868. This lithograph shows an elite residential quarter of Mumbai (Bombay), as suggested by the broad street, wooden verandahs and elaborate facades of the houses.