Crossing the Touse
1820
Hand-coloured aquatint mounted on board
Print size: 18.2 x 23.5 in (45.5 x 59.6 cm)
Sheet size: 19.4 x 25 in (48.5 x 63.5 cm)
Engraved by R Havell and sons
Published by Rodwell and Martin, London
This work will be shipped unframed
NON-EXPORTABLE
This coloured aquatint was made by Robert Havell and Son from plate 10 of JB Fraser's 'Views in the Himala Mountains'. It shows a detachment of William Fraser's 'Irregulars' crossing the River Tons - a tributary of the Yamuna - by means of a harness dangling from a rope. Crossing rivers in the Himalayas was always a hazardous undertaking as the waters from the mountains were often raging torrents.(Source: British Online Library)