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Inscription content: Lettered below image with title, production detail: "Drawn by J. B. Fraser", "Engraved by R. Havell & Son, No. XII" and publication line: "Published as the Act directs by Mesrs Rodwell & Martin, Bond Street, March 1. 1820"

James Baillie Fraser, a Scot, travelled to India after the war with Nepal ended. Accompanied by his brother William, he explored the Himalayan region for two months in 1815-16, and the duo were the... Inscription content: Lettered below image with title, production detail: "Drawn by J. B. Fraser", "Engraved by R. Havell & Son, No. XII" and publication line: "Published as the Act directs by Mesrs Rodwell & Martin, Bond Street, March 1. 1820"

James Baillie Fraser, a Scot, travelled to India after the war with Nepal ended. Accompanied by his brother William, he explored the Himalayan region for two months in 1815-16, and the duo were the first Europeans to reach the sources of both the Ganga and Yamuna rivers. Fraser, who was tutored by artist George Chinnery, documented his travels in the form of sketches and writings. Upon his return to Calcutta, he was encouraged to publish these by William Havell. The writings were published as The Journal of a Tour through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himalaya Mountains and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges. The present lot is Plate no. 12 from James Baillie Fraser's, Views in the Himala Mountains, London: Rodwell & Martin, 1820.

In style the plates are similar to, and very much a match, for Henry Salt's and the Daniell brothers' large-scale views published 10 and 20 years earlier. This was a deliberate strategy by the publishers who drew attention to the similarities in their advertisements which describe the work as being 'In Elephant Folio, uniform with Daniell's Oriental Scenery, and Salt's Views in Abyssinia.' J R Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, 498 no. 13.

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