Earthquake damage to fortifications, with snow-covered mountains, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.

2 prints : lithographs with two tint plates, with watercolour

(facsimile handwriting) : Throughout the whole of the plates representing the Defences of Jellalabad, the lines marked AB represent the walls in the state I found them, and the lines marked CD shew the additions which were made to the Fortifications whilst the red line indicates the portions thrown down by the earthquake .. W. Sale - Colnl .. 13th Light Infantry ; (pencil) : Jellalabad No. 2

A bibliographical note in Dictionary of national biography, London 1909, vol. 17, p. 678 mentions: "The Defence of Jalalabad, engravings [sic], with letterpress at the end by Colonel W. Sale, fol., London, 1846". Colonel W. Sale, of the East India Company and the 13th Light Infantry, was Sir Robert Henry Sale's father and supplied the text, in a facsimile of his handwriting, for the mounts to which the lithographs are attached. A set of The defence of Jalalabad was offered for sale at Dreweatts Bloomsbury auction house, New York 21 April 2010, lot 83 (59 x 48 cm., lithographed title, lithographed portrait and 23 hand-colored lithographed plates by W.L. Walton mounted on 12 card sheets as issued, in portfolio)

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