2-325-601 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Foundation of Batavia, Java, Dutch East Indies, 1619, (c1870). The Dutch first arrived in Indonesia in 1596 and six years later established the Dutch East India Company to exploit the lucarative spice trade. In 1619 they founded Batavia, the town that would eventually grow to become the modern Indonesian capital, Jakarta. A print from Nederlands Geschiedenis en Volksleven in Schetsen, by J Van Lenner and J Ter Gouw. (Leiden, AW Sijthoff, c1870).