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John Burke — The Amir Yakub Khan. The First Meeting with Major Cavagnari and Mr. Jenkins, 7 Miles from Safed Sang

John Burke

The Amir Yakub Khan. The First Meeting with Major Cavagnari and Mr. Jenkins, 7 Miles from Safed Sang

1878

Freezing a crucial diplomatic encounter between British and Afghan leadership, Burke's photograph transforms a political meeting into lasting historical documentation.

Medium
albumen print

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John Burke, The Amir Yakub Khan. The First Meeting with Major Cavagnari and Mr. Jenkins, 7 Miles from Safed Sang, 1878

Freezing a crucial diplomatic encounter between British and Afghan leadership, Burke's photograph transforms a political meeting into lasting historical documentation.

Medium
albumen print
Year
1878
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Albumen Print, Sepia Tone, Documentary, Photograph, Landscape, Historical, Colonial, Portrait, British

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