Alexander Jack
Description of Six Views of Kot Kangra
London, 1846
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Magnificent complete series of views “shewing the passage of the British Force under Brigadier Wheeler” during their campaign to capture Kangra Fort, Himachal Pradesh, from the Sikhs. Kot Kangara is the strongest and most important of the hillforts in the Jalindhur Doab. It is a beautiful and fertile and is regarded as the “Cashmere of the Punjub”.
The portfolio depicts the magnificent complete series of views demonstrating the passage of the British Force under Brigadier Wheeler during their campaign to capture Kangra Fort, Himachal Pradesh, from the Sikhs. It was the bloodless achievement that closed the glorious campaign of the Sutlej.
Description of Six Views of Kot Kangra
First Edition. (61 x 45cm) (Box-67 x 52cm) Tinted lithographed pictorial title (missing), letterpress dedication and leaf of descriptive text, 6 finely hand-coloured lithographed plates by G Childs, J Picken, T S Boys and W Walton after Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Jack, some heightened with gum arabic, loose as issued. from the library of Robert & Maria Travis.
Binding: Original red cloth-backed limp marbled boards, lithographed publisher’s printed label Lieut. Col. Jack’s Views of Kot Kangra on upper cover; preserved in modern customized (with toggles) book box of Robert & Maria Travis.
Condition: Bumped and rubbed edges of the book. Original but fragile spine preserved in a solander box. An excellent copy.
Exportable: No
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