• John Burke (photographer)

Partial view of Kabul with mountains in the background, from Siah Sang, Afghanistan

between 1878 and 1880

Albumen silver print

comp.: 16,9 x 28,4 cm secondary supports (approx.; bound; two secondary supports): 60,2 x 84,2 cm secondary support (approx; bound; for individual secondary support): 30,1 x 42,1 cm

PH1982:0373:092:002

• partial view
• distant view
• exterior view

- Photographs PH1982:0373:092:001 - PH1982:0373:092:003 form panorama PH1982:0373:092:001-003. The photographs are mounted on two separate secondary supports but face each other in album PH1982:0373:001-094. Photograph PH1982:0373:092:002 has been cut in half and the pieces are separately mounted on the two secondary supports. The photographs are arranged numerically from left to right to form the panorama.

signed and numbered - by the photographer, on the negative of PH1982:0373:092:002, l.l.: "Burke 300" inscribed - by an unknown hand, on the secondary support of PH1982:0373:092:001 - PH1982:0373:092:002, l.l.: "Panorama from Siah Sung."

Kabul; Kabul; Afghanistan;

• architecture
• militaire
• topographique

• houses
• city
• mausoleum
• buildings
• mountains
• plain