View in the large garden, Jellalabad. Creator: Photographer : Burke, John |
Photograph with a view of a formal garden at Jalalabad in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, taken by John Burke in 1878. Burke accompanied the Peshawar Valley Field Force, one of three British Anglo-Indian army columns deployed in the Second Afghan War (1878-80), despite being rejected for the role of official photographer. He financed his trip by advance sales of his photographs 'illustrating the advance from Attock to Jellalabad'. Coming to India as apothecary with the Ro
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