• John Burke (photographer)

Panorama of the Bala Hissar [High Fort] (now demolished), Kabul, Afghanistan

1880

Albumen silver prints

comp. (for panorama): 19,5 x 63,5 cm comps. (range; for individual images): 19,3 to 19,5 x 31,7 cm secondary supports: 60,2 x 84,2 cm secondary support (approx; bound; for individual secondary support): 30,1 x 42,1 cm

PH1982:0373:058:001-002

• exterior views

- Photographs PH1982:0373:058:001 and PH1982:0373:058:002 form panorama PH1982:0373:058:001-002. The photographs are mounted on different secondary supports but face each other in album PH1982:0373:001-094. Photograph PH1982:0373:058:001 comprises the left half of the panorama, and photograph PH1982:0373:058:002 comprises the right half.

signed and numbered - by the photographer, on the negative of PH1982:0373:058:001, l.l.: "Burke 179" signed and numbered - by the photographer, on the negative of PH1982:0373:058:002, l.l.: "Burke 178" numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, on the secondary support of PH1982:0373:058:001, l.l.: "178. 179. Panorama Bala Hissar"

Kabul; Kabul; Afghanistan;

• architecture
• militaire
• topographique

• people
• gate
• soldiers
• city wall
• fort
• fortifications
• mountains

Contient:

• PH1982:0373:058:001, Partial view of the Bala Hissar [High Fort] (now demolished) with mountains in the background, Kabul, Afghanistan, 1880
• PH1982:0373:058:002, Partial view of the Bala Hissar [High Fort] (now demolished) showing a gate and soldiers, Kabul, Afghanistan, 1880