Views In Affghaunistan
Print
1841 (printed)
1841 (printed)
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Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, with additional colouring by hand, depicting a figure from Afghanistan. Volume of plates (26) including frontispiece, title page, and map, with a vignette and descriptive text. Publisher's cloth rebacked in green morocco. The title on the title page is embossed. Some plates signed. Each plate lettered with title.
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| Materials and techniques | Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, with additional colouring by hand |
| Brief description | Lithograph entitled 'Portrait Of An Affghaun', after a sketch by Sir Keith Alexander Jackson from a volume of plates (26) entitled 'Views In Affghaunistan', published by W. H. Allen and T. McLean. Great Britain, 1841. |
| Physical description | Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, with additional colouring by hand, depicting a figure from Afghanistan. Volume of plates (26) including frontispiece, title page, and map, with a vignette and descriptive text. Publisher's cloth rebacked in green morocco. The title on the title page is embossed. Some plates signed. Each plate lettered with title. |
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| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Production | The views are from sketches taken by Sir Keith Jackson during the campaign of the Army of the Indus. The dedication is by Joseph Fowell Walton. The plates do not all correspond to those listed by Abbey. In Abbey's volume, some of the plates are signed by W. L. Walton. |
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| Accession number | SP.334:1 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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