Author: ELLIOT, ROBERT. Roberts, Emma.
Title: Views in India, China, and on the shores of the Red Sea. Drawn by Prout, Stanfield, Cattermole, Purser, Cox, Austen, &c., from original sketches by Commander Robert Elliott. With descriptions by Emma Roberts.
Description: London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher & P. Jackson, [1835]. 2 vols in 1. 68, 64 pp. 2 steel engr. frontispieces (incl. view with printed colours), 2 steel engraved titles, & 60 b./w. steel-engr. views after drawings by Robert Elliot. Bound together in a rather basic modern black full leather binding, gilt lettered on spine. 4to. - Plates and text foxed throughout; modern endpapers.Robert James Elliott (1790 - 1849), was an English naval officer, Captain in the Royal Navy, and known as a topographical draughtsman from 1822 to 1824. He travelled from 1822 to 1824 in India, Canton (Guangzhou), and the Red Sea area. Some of the sketches he had made on his travels were published under the title View in the East in 1833. In that edition, the letterpress descriptions were drawn from a variety of published works, including Amelia Heber’s posthumous edition of Reginald Heber’s Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India (1828). These sketches were worked up by Samuel Prout, Clarkson Stanfield, and others into finished drawings and consequently engraved; they were published in parts by Fisher & Co., appearing 1830-1833, under the title, Views in the East, comprising India, Canton, and the Red Sea, with historical and descriptive letterpress by Emma Roberts. For this 1835 edition, the publishers Fisher & Co. commissioned Emma Roberts(1794-1840), an English travel writer and poet who lived in India for several years, to write new letterpress.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia China Etnografie Azië