Assemblage of Hillmen, Bheem ke Udar, Crossing the Touse [and] View of the Country from Urshalun Teeba, published Messrs. Rodwell and Martin, 1820, togther four aquatints by R.Havell & son, contemporary hand colouring, trimmed to image on three margins, each approximately 440 x 580 mm, mounted, framed and glazed Abbey Travel 498. Four plates from 'Views in the Himala Mountains'. James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) was a Scottish traveller and artist, who, following the end of the war with Nepal in 1815 travelled with his brother William to the Himalayas, spending two months exploring the region. They became the first Europeans to reach the sources of the Jumna and Ganges rivers. Tutored by the artist George Chinnery Fraser was encouraged by William Havell to publish his sketches upon his return to Calcutta. Fraser's account of his travels was separately published as 'Journal of a Tour through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges'. (4)
Assemblage of Hillmen, Bheem ke Udar, Crossing the Touse [and] View of the Country from Urshalun Teeba, published Messrs. Rodwell and Martin, 1820, togther four aquatints by R.Havell & son, contemporary hand colouring, trimmed to image on three margins, each approximately 440 x 580 mm, mounted, framed and glazed Abbey Travel 498. Four plates from 'Views in the Himala Mountains'. James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) was a Scottish traveller and artist, who, following the end of the war with Nepal in 1815 travelled with his brother William to the Himalayas, spending two months exploring the region. They became the first Europeans to reach the sources of the Jumna and Ganges rivers. Tutored by the artist George Chinnery Fraser was encouraged by William Havell to publish his sketches upon his return to Calcutta. Fraser's account of his travels was separately published as 'Journal of a Tour through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges'. (4)
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