BOMBAY FROM MALABAR HILL
(VUE DE BOMBAY ET DES MONTAGNES DU MALABAR)BOMBAY FROM MALABAR HILLBy Isidore Laurent DeroyPublished by L Turgis, Jr.New Yorkcirca 1840Coloured lithographImage size: 65cm x 48 cmWith frame: 50 x 62 cmA RARE ANTIQUE PRINT OF BOMBAY FROM MALABAR HILLA view of Mumbai from the very rare series 'Ports de Mer d'Asie' by Isidore Laurent Deroy (1796-1886). Taken from north of the city, it features a group of people including musicians seated on the grass in the foreground.Around the time of this painting, Malabar Hill had become the the new residential precinct of the Bombay governors. The city's history dates back tothe advent of the Silhara kings who ruled the Bombay islands (810-1260 AD), and built the original temples of Walkeshwar.Coloured lithograph pub: circa 1840 the history of Malabar hill - - dates back to the from 810 to 1260 ad and built theoriginal temples of Walkeshwar. At the south-eastern tip of the peninsula, they found, at what is now Malabar point, a strangely cleft rock, w