Early postcard of the gate of Jaipur, called the Pink City of Rajasthan.
Among the many illustrated postcard was the Austrian firm of Joseph Heim. They published a series of "Artists Postcards" by the painter Joseph Hoffmann in Vienna in April 1898.
Jaipur also popularly known as the Pink City, historically sometimes rendered as Jeypore, is the capital of Rajasthan state, India. Founded in 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, Jaipur was the first planned city in India and in 2003, after only 276 years, the population reached approximately 2.7 million.
Built of pink stucco in imitation of sandstone, the city is remarkable among pre-modern Indian cities for the width and regularity of its streets which are laid out into six quarters separated by broad streets 111 feet wide.