Caption
View of the sugar factory in Serpong, La fabrique de sucre, située dans le domaine de Serpon, érigée par mr. JJ van Braam. Ile de Java, Vues de Java, print, album page, The sugar factory in Serpong (West Java) seen from above. The factory is situated by a river, with mountains in the background. Print is part of an album containing a series of six lithographs of views of Java and a title print., printmaker: Willem Jan Gordon, after design by Adrianus Johannes Bik, printer (person): Hilmar Johannes Backer, Dordrecht, publisher: Buffa en Zonen, Frans, Amsterdam, publisher: Goupil, Vibert & Cie., Paris, publisher: Ackermann & Co., London, commissioner (person who orders works): Jan Jacob van Braam, 1842, printer (person), commissioner (person who orders works), paper, lithography, height 693 mm x width 504 mm, Print is part of a series of six., factory in landscape, sugar, Java, West-Java, A wide riverside scene rendered in monochrome shows a complex of long, pitched-roof buildings arranged around a central courtyard, with several tall chimneys emitting plumes of smoke. People populate the courtyard and surrounding paths, some moving, some working, and small groups carry or push loads toward the water. Multiple small boats and canoes are on the river near a sloped bank where figures embark and disembark. Vegetation including clusters of trees and tall palms frames the foreground and riverbank. Rolling hills and peaked mountains rise in the distant background beneath a clouded sky.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B31_162
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