Print of steel engraving titled „Cochinchinois de la Haute Classe“.

Author De Sainson.

Engraved by unknown.

From „Voyage pittoresque Autour du Monde, resume general des voyages decouvertes, public sous la direction de M. Dumont D’Urville, a Paris, chez L. Tenre, Libraire-Editeur, 1834.

Kochi also known as Cochin (KO-chin), is a major port city on the south west coast of India by the Laccadive Sea and is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of Kerala. Kochi is often called Ernakulam, which refers to the mainland part of the city. In Kerala, the corporation of Kochi (pop. 601,574) is the second largest city and is part of an extended metropolitan region (pop. 2.1 million), which is the largest urban agglomeration in the state. Kochi city is also a part of the Greater Cochin region and is classified as a Tier-II city by the Government of India. The civic body that governs the city is the Cochin Municipal Corporation, which was constituted in the year 1967, and the statutory bodies that oversee its development are the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) and the Goshree Islands Development Authority (GIDA).

Approx. image size 11, 7 x 9, 3/17, 4 x 14, 1 cm.Condition: good.

Condition: good.