India – Two Arabs, Followers of the Late Sir A. Burnes, Who Accompanied him to Simla Lithograph 1844 – by Emily Eden, from Portraits of the Princes and People of India, published 1844 by J. Dickerson. Emily Eden, writer, whose brother George was appointed governor-general of India in 1835. He was unmarried and Emily and Frances accompanied him to Calcutta, where they arrived in 1836 and carried out the official duties of the governor’s lady with Emily assuming chief responsibility. Her travels formed the basis of what became perhaps her best known book, Up the country, which was drawn from a series of letters to one of her sisters. Emily was a talented amateur painter as well as writer, in 1842 the Edens returned to England, where Emily spent the rest of her life, she had by that time published Portraits of the People and Princes of India (1844), a collection of her accomplished lithographs. Unframed measures 37x53cm approx.