Views in India, Chiefly Among The Himalaya Mountains

Emma Roberts, Views in India, chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains, London: Fisher Sons and Company, 1838

94 pages including 37 steel engravings; three quarter leather binding with gilt text at spine along with four raised bands
12.75 x 10.25 in (32.5 x 26 cm)

Lieutenant George Francis White of the 31st Regiment of the East India Co. records his Himalaya journey to the sources of the Jumna and Ganges rivers. Edited by Emma Roberts.

This work includes "description of the rocks in the Ganges and Sutlej, the Keeree pass, Hardwar, Mussoorie, Jamnotri, Gangotri, Nahaun, including an account of the ascent of Choor" (Kaul 751). The exquisite plates depict various scenes of the Ganges River, the Snowy Range of the Himalayas, Gungootree the Sacred Source of the Ganges, and the Valley of the Dhoon, among others. George Francis White (1808-98) served in the British Army, and was in India with the 31st Regiment of Foot from 1825-46. He fought in the Sutlej campaign of 1846 including the battles of Mudki and Ferozeshah. White was a skillful amateur artist and many of his drawings were engraved. His drawings were used by Robert Burford for a panorama of the Himalayas exhibited at Leicester Square in 1847.

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