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watercolour

WD 1347 f.7b

paper

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Title

Jellalabad from the north near the Caubul River.

Date

1840

Material

paper

Language / script

English (lang.)

Description

Scope and content : Watercolour by James AtkinsonOne of a album of 17 pen-and-ink and watercolour sketches of views in Afghanistan from the Khyber Pass to Kabul. The album is inscribed in ink with the title Second Series of Views in Affghanistan from the Khyber Pass to Caubul.The album also contains a note by Atkinson's son referring to the fact that the sketches were intended to form a sequel to the series of lithographs of Atkinson's sketches, published as Sketches of Afghaunistan (London, 1842).

Institution

British Library

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