Note: This portrait must have been done in Rome, in 1878, at the photographic studio Lorenzo Suscipj, as it is very similar to another one Gerson da Cunha did there. See Vicente (2012b, 5). 4 When Gerson da Cunha's name appears in recent historical books, it does so for his work on Bombay. Gyan Prakash (2011) mentions him once in his Mumbai Fables. A History of an Enchanted City, while a recent book on Bombay includes him in the bibliography but not as a subject (Chopra 2011).