Bombay

This lithograph depicts a view of Back Bay in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) from Malabar Hill with palm trees in the left-hand foreground. The print was plate 11, titled ‘Bombay’, in John Corbet Anderson’s ‘To India and Back by the Cape, By a Traveller’, printed for the author in 1858. Anderson’s book was a self-published guidebook for travellers to India, featuring eighteenth lithographic plates including views of Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Madras [Chennai], Calcutta [Kolkata], Bombay [Mumbai], Mauritius, Madeira, Tristan da Cunha and the Cape Peninsula.