Above: Lowry has mistakenly associated the Shalimar Gardens, on the east bank of the Dal Lake, with the houseboats that are a well-known feature of Srinagar. Compare Major Edward Molyneux's water-colour, "Market Boats on the Mar Canal, Srinagar" (Plate 21, opposite p. 64 of Francis Younghusband's Kashmir).
He was in Kashmir, he knew, lying in the meadows near running water among violets and trefoil, the Himalayas beyond UTV, 374.
Left: The Consul's dying vision of Kashmir arises from the pages of Francis Younghusband's Kashmir and the illustrations by Major E. Molyneux, most clearly, from "In the Sind Valley" (Plate 54, opposite p. 254).