INDONESIA Street Scenery in Batavia or Jakarta

Description: Print title: Street Scene in Batavia Print Specifics: Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique print Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual: 1890 Publisher: D. Appleton & Co., New York. Condition: 1-2 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Slightly 'wavy' along the top blank margin. Small water-stain in lower right corner of blank margin. Dimensions: 7 x 10.5 inches (17 x 26,5 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin) Reverse side: Blank Notes: 1. Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. Original Narrative: In the Indonesian tropical world Java ranks only fourth for size; but it contains over two-thirds of the whole population, while the relative value of its productions is still more considerable. For a period of at least twenty centuries it has surpassed all the other regions of the archipelago in population, abundance of resources, and the progress of civilization. First visited and colonised by the Hindus, it soon became the centre of their influence in Indonesia, and from that period the Javanese have enjoyed a material and social pre-eminence in this region. Their tribes, to whom the Buddhist missionaries had brought the words of peace and universal brotherhood, became fused in a united nationality, thus entering on a new historic era unattainable by the barbarous and savage inhabitants of the adjacent islands. Under the subsequent Arab and Dutch sway the impulse given by the first Indian civilisers made itself still felt by the Javanese populations. According to some authorities the very name by which the island is still designated is of Hindu origin. The term Jabadiu, known to Ptolemy, is merely the vulgar form Java-jipa, the "Island of Barley," apparently so named by the Hindu immigrants from a cereal which looked like the barley of India, but which was probably millet (Panicum italicum). Nevertheless other etymologists Sought an explanation of the word Jata or Javi in the native languages. The Sundanese of the western districts called themselves Jelma -Bumi, that is, "Men of the Soil," designating their neighbours of the central and eastern provinces as Tyang Javi, or "Foreigners," and the region itself as Tanah Juvi, that is, "Foreign or Outer Land." This hypothesis is strengthened by the fact that other outer regions, notably Sumatra and Bali, also bore the name of Java, and at the dawn of modern history, the Australian continent itself is vaguely indicated under the appellation of "Great Java." Batavia, the Jakarta of the natives, present capital of Java, and of all the Dutch East Indian possessions, occupies an area out of all proportion with its population, stretching from the harbour in a straight line for over twelve miles inland. The vast space, however, is not continuously built over, but rather occupied by several distinct quarters, connected together by canals, routes, and avenues. The old town had been founded in 1619 on the coast along the right bank of the Liwong, while the citadel with its four sharp bastions stood on an artificial islet at the entrance of the estuary. Batavia gradually acquired the aspect of a Dutch city with its canals and dykes, its many storied and gabled brick houses ; but a shower of ashes ejected from Mount Salak choked the canals, converting the lower quarters into swamps and causing the land to advance seawards. Batavia thus became still more unhealthy than before, and at the same time lost the advantage of its marine position. At present it lies considerably over a mile from the coast and the canalized river has had to be extended the same distance to reach water. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998. Five-star service.

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