Java Naar Schilderijen en Teekeningen van A. Salm, Lid der Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende kunsten te Amsterdam. op steen gebracht door J.C. Greive, Jr.

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(24) Johan Conrad Greive (1837-1891) engraver, after Abram Salm (1801-1876)
Java Naar Schilderijen en Teekeningen van A. Salm, Lid der Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende kunsten te Amsterdam. op steen gebracht door J.C. Greive, Jr.
Chromolithographs, partly hand-coloured, the scenes identified by the publisher's label lower right corner on the mounts, frontispiece printed in black and red, titles and complete set of 24 plates, published by François Buffa & Zonen, Amsterdam (1865-72), trimmed to the subject and laid down on card as published, generally in excellent condition, the original backing boards with minor defects, original cloth and leather wrappers, gilt title on front, slightly worn
Overall 640 x 480 mm.
The order of contents is:
1.''t Land Tjitrap (Assistent-Residentie Buitenzorg)' (265 x 361 mm.)
2.'De Vulkaan de Smeroe. Genomen uit de Residentie Passourouang'
(363 x 268 mm.)
3.'Waterval Singahan (Residentie Rembang)' (362 x 268 mm.)
4.'Suikerfabriek Pangka (Residentie Tagal)' (264 x 363 mm.)
5.'Gezicht op het Land Tjiliboet (Assistent-Residentie Buitenzorg)' (261 x 361 mm.)
6.'De kleine Baai Srigonjo, Zuidkust van Java (Regentschap Malang, Residentie Passarouang)' (268 x 365 mm.)
7.'De Vuurspuwende Berg Bromo in 1856 (Residentie Probolingo)'
(263 x 363 mm.)
8.'Anjer, Noordkust van Java (Residentie Bantam)' (264 x 362 mm.)
9.'Gezicht op de Rivier de Solo (Afdeeling Toeban, Residentie Rembang)' (264 x 363 mm.)
10.'Gezicht op het Kawische Gebergte en op de Tabaksonderneming (Assistent-Residentie Malang)' (265 x 363 mm.)
11.'Weg van Buitenzorg naar de Vallei van de Salak (Residentie Buitenzorg)' (362 x 268 mm.)
12.'De Rivier Brandas als Bergstroom (Residentie Passarouan)'
(363 x 268 mm.)
13.'Landschap in de Bataviasche Ommelanden' (265 x 362 mm.)
14.'Landschap in het Malangsche (Residentie Passarouan)'
(268 x 362 mm.)
15.'Huwelijksoptocht in de Vallei van de Salak' (266 x 361 mm.)
16.'Landschap in de Residentie Bantam' (268 x 363 mm.)
17.'Gezicht op het Land Kedong Badak en den Grooten Weg naar Buitenzorg' (268 x 362 mm.)
18.'Dorpsfeest in de Omstreken der Ardjoeno (Residentie Soerabaya)' (268 x 362 mm.)
19.'Landschap in de Maneschijn in de Omstreken van Sumadang (Preanger Regentschappen)' (359 x 268 mm.)
20.'Woest Landschap (Oosthoek van Java)' (363 x 265 mm.)
21.'De Badplaats Wenditt, Afdeling Malang (Residentie Passarouan)'
(269 x 364 mm.)
22.'In het Tengersche Gebergte (Oosthoek van Java)' (269 x 363 mm.)
23.'De Groote Weg van Buitenzorg naar de Preanger Regentschappen'
(267 x 363 mm.)
24.'In het Sumadangsche (Preanger Regentschappen)' (268 x 360 mm.) (24)

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Lot Essay

Abram Salm spent twenty-nine years in Indonesia. His paintings were copied by the celebrated nineteenth century painter and lithographer J.C. Greive, at the behest of the publisher Frans Buffa, of Amsterdam. The latter two had regularly co-operated on major successful topographical works, but the quality and finish of the plates in Java is generally held to be their greatest effort, and thus represents some of the finest nineteenth century lithographic book illustrations to have been published in the Netherlands.
"Indeed they may be said to represent the highest point in the depiction of Indonesian topography by chromolithographic printing." (J.Bastin, in the introductory essay of the facsimile edition of Java; Naar Schilderijen van A. Salm, Singapore, Gallery Editions, 1971, op.cit. p. 19)

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