• John Burke (photographer)

Panorama of Kabul with mountains in the background, Afghanistan

between 1878 and 1880

Albumen silver prints

comp. (for panorama): 19,8 x 92,4 cm comps. (range; for individual images): 19,7 to 30 x 31 to 31,4 cm secondary supports (approx.; bound; three secondary supports): 89,9 x 114,3 cm secondary supports (range; approx.; bound; for individual secondary supports): 29,7 to 30,1 x 30,3 to 42,1 cm

PH1982:0373:091:001-003

• partial views
• exterior views

- Photographs PH1982:0373:091:001 - PH1982:0373:091:003 form panorama PH1982:0373:091:001-003. Photographs PH1982:0373:091:002 and PH1982:0373:091:003 are mounted on separate secondary supports but face each other in album PH1982:0373:001-094. Photograph PH1982:0373:091:001 is mounted on a secondary support that is hinged with white woven tape to the secondary support of PH1982:0373:091:002. The photographs are arranged numerically from left to right to form the panorama.

signed and numbered - by the photographer, on the negative of PH1982:0373:091:001, l.l.: "Burke 222" signed and numbered - by the photographer, on the negative of PH1982:0373:091:002, l.c.: "Burke 221" signed and numbered - by the photographer, on the negative of PH1982:0373:091:003, l.l.: "Burke 220" inscribed - by an unknown hand, on the secondary support of PH1982:0373:091:002, l.l.: "Panorama from above Bala Boorg"

Kabul; Kabul; Afghanistan;

• architecture
• topographic

• houses
• city
• mausoleum
• buildings
• fortifications
• mountains

Contains:

• PH1982:0373:091:001, Partial view of Kabul with mountains in the background, Afghanistan, between 1878 and 1880
• PH1982:0373:091:002, Panorama of Kabul showing the Mausoleum of Timur Shah and the British cantonment at Sherpur with mountains in the background, Afghanistan, between 1878 and 1880
• PH1982:0373:091:003, Partial view of Kabul with mountains in the background and a mountain in the foreground, Afghanistan, between 1878 and 1880