‘The Encampment at Dadur, with the Entrance to the Bolan Pass’, 1839 (lithograph, tinted)

‘The Encampment at Dadur, with the Entrance to the Bolan Pass’, 1839. Tinted lithograph from 'Sketches in Afghanistan', 1838-1842. By Louis and Charles Haghe after James Atkinson, published by Henry Graves and Company and J W Allen and Company, 1 July 1842. Atkinson (1780-1852) painted this image while serving as official Superintending Surgeon of the Army of the Indus, a combined force of British and Indian troops that marched on Kabul in 1839. The Army entered Afghanistan through the Bolan Pass, a passage 60 miles long and 5,880 feet tall at its highest point. It took the army two weeks to pass through it.