Lot 43
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JOHN BURKE
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JOHN BURKE

Photographs taken in Afghanistan during the Campaigns of 1878-79 and 1879-80

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JOHN BURKE
Photographs taken in Afghanistan during the Campaigns of 1878-79 and 1879-80
Album of 64 albumen prints including 9 two-part panoramas. 1878-80. The panoramas 8 1/8 x 22¾ in. (20.7 x 57.8 cm.), 36 others approximately 8 x 11 in. (20.3 x 27.9 cm.) and 10 approximately 2½ x 3¾ in. (6.3 x 9.5 cm.) or the reverse. The majority with typescript title labels on mounts and a few titled in pencil on mounts, titled on typescript label mounted on front free end, half black leather, ruled in gilt, g.e.
Album size: 11 x 14¾ in. (27.9 x 37.5 cm.)
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Lot Essay

Comprising group portraits of the Second Infantry Brigade under General Tythers, two of Officers of the Army Medical Department with the Khyber Field Force, Afghans with rifles and another with Bactrian camels, the Artillery and Cavalry awaiting arrival of Yakub Khan, Officers of General C. Gough's Brigade, and two of Officers and the Company of 4th Goorkhas; panoramic views of the 'Fort and Plain of Dakka' (2), 'View of British Camp from South Hill Piquet' (2), 'City of Jellalabad from Piper's Hill', 'British Camp, Sufed Sung', 'Kabul from upper Bala Hissar', 'Bala Hissar and Palace'; and other views of the Residency, 44th Hill and Monument, 'Yakoob Khan's Tent and Guard of Honour of H.M.'s 17th Regt., Sufed Sung', the General Hospital at Jellalabad and one of 'Sikari Bagh'.

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