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After James Atkinson (British, 1780-1852) - Sketches in Afghanistan - Album of twenty-five colour lithographs (all mounted) - Each 24.5 x 36.5cm - Lithographed by Louis and Charles Haghe (British, d. 1885 and 1888 respectively) - Published by Henry Graves & Co., 1842 - The album with original green cloth covers and two title pages - Together with four bespoke frames, each 48.5 x 58.5cm (5) - Atkinson was a British army surgeon, artist and Persian scholar. In 1838, he joined Sir John Keane's expeditionary force to Afghanistan to oust the pro-Russian ruler Dost Muhammad Khan, thus beginning the First Afghan War (1839-1842). The album is an important record of the previously unseen topography of Afghanistan.
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