• John Burke (photographer)

Partial view of Kabul with mountains in the background and a mountain in the foreground, Afghanistan

between 1878 and 1880

Albumen silver print

comp.: 19.7 x 31.4 cm secondary support: 30.1 x 42.1 cm

PH1982:0373:091:003

• partial view
• exterior view

- 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 PH1982:0373:091:002, l.c.: "Burke 221" 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
• militaire
• topographique

• houses
• city
• buildings
• fortifications
• mountains