Antique chromolithograph of a street parade scene celebrating Cap Go Meh, also known as the Spring Lantern Festival. Celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Chinese year, this time is marked by the Chinese community with the lighting of lanterns, street shows, acrobats, dragons, and special food. In this print, the parade includes effigies and torches while two children and a few onlookers watch the procession. This parade stretches all the way to the back as one can see shapes and figures in the distance.

Published in Leiden, the Netherlands, after a water drawing by J.C. Rappard,

Jhr. Josias Cornelis Rappard (1824-1898) was a colonel in the KNIL and a painter. During his posting in the Netherlands Indies 1842-1872, he painted and drew pictures of life and scenes in the Indies that were later, back in Leiden, The Netherlands, would be made into chromolithographs. The Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam holds a large number of these prints and collectors all over the world appreciate Rappard's classic watercolours.

Chromolithography was a popular method for colour printing in the 19th century because of its lower cost and relative ease to mass-produce. The process involves the use of stones and a chemical process to fasten images to the paper. High-end chromolithographs are hand-finished by an artist after the process to ensure the best possible fidelity in each copy.