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LL/93684
John Burke
1878-1880
View of the Descent from Khurd Khyber, Looking Towards Bassaule: Photographs, India, Presented by Lord Lytton, 1880

Albumen print
24.1 x 29.4 cm (image)
 
The Royal Collection
RCIN 2702090
 
Photograph with several Indians or Afghans and an Englishman (in pith helmet), some standing or sitting, while travelling along a pass, some on horseback, which winds between rocky hills. The Khurd Khyber Pass is a defile in the Khurd range of mountains in the Jalalabad district of Afghanistan, looking towards Basaul, Afghanistan.
 
Photograph in album presented by the Earl of Lytton (1831-91), Viceroy of India to Queen Victoria in 1880
 
LL/93684


 

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