Category:A Picturesque Tour along the River Ganges and Jumna in India (1824)

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• C. R. Forrest, Lieutenant-Colonel (1824) A Picturesque Tour Along the River Ganges and Jumna in India (hand-coloured engravings), London: R. Ackerman

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest (1750-1827)
[[A Picturesque Tour along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India. London: L. Harrison for R. Ackermann, 1824 (text watermarked 1824; plates, 1824-1825). Large 4° (335 x 272mm). Title and final text leaf with hand-coloured aquatint vignettes, engraved folding map, 24 hand-coloured aquatint views by G. Hunt and T. Sutherland after Forrest.

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest (d. 1827) was a British infantry officer and amateur artist, served in India between 1802 and 1811, first with the 3rd Regiment of Foot (“The Bluffs”) and later as an aide-de-camp to his father-in-law, General William St. Leger. He undertook this tour from Calcutta to Khanpore in December 1807 with a party consisting of seven British officers, three elephants, 200 servants, and an armed guard of 40 sepoys, or Indian soldiers.

List of plates:

Vignette title page - Tomb at Jeswunthnagarh, on the Jumna river. 1. Hindoo Pagodas below Barrackpore on the Ganges. 2. Hindoo Village on the Ganges near Ambooah. [Photocopy] 3. Ghaut of Cutwa on the Ganges. 4. Part of the City of Moorshedabad, ancient capital of Bengal. 5. Mountains of Rajemahal. 6. The Motee Girna, or Falls in the Rajemahal Hills. 7. The Rock of Colgong and part of the village. 8. Ancient Tomb at the confluence of the Boglipore Nulla and the Ganges. 9. A Village on the Ganges above Boglipore. 10. The Fakeer's Rock at Janguira near Sultanguni. 11. Village and Pagoda below Patna Azimabad on the Ganges. 12. Hindoo Ghaut on the Ganges below Benares. 13. City of Benares from the Ganges. 14. Sacred Tank and Pagoda near Benares. 15. Mahomedan Mosque and Tomb near Benares. 16. The Indian Fort of Chunargurh on the Ganges. 17. Raj Ghaut and Fort of Allahabad, at the confluence of the Ganges and Jumna Rivers. 18. Tombs of Etaya in the Dooab on the Jumna River. 19. Surseya Ghaut, Khanpore. 20. City of Lucknow, Capital of Province of Oude on the Goomty River. 21. Palace of the King of Delhi, taken from the principal Mosque. 22. The Cuttus Minar in the Ruins of Ancient Delhi. 23. Grand Gateway and Tomb of the Emperor Acber at Secundra. 24. The Taje Mahal, Tomb of the Emperor Shah Jehan and his Queen. End piece. Sicre Gully Pass between Bengal and Bahar. (Small vignette view below the last page of text.)