Peshawur Gate — Jellalabad — city and surroundings. Photographer: Burke, John
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the road leading to the Peshawar Gate in the city wall of Jalalabad, with figures posed on the highway.
Jellalabad — the bastion where Genl. Elphinstone and others were buried during the siege 1841-42. Photographer: Burke, John
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Inscription: Signed 'Burke 76' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards a bastion in the city wall, with Afghan figures grouped in the foreground.
Jerusalem, from the Mount of Olives. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the valley towards the walled city of Jerusalem, with the Dome of the Rock prominent on the left: 'The view is taken from the northern extremity of the Mount of Olives. Immediately in front lies the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and to the left the Gard...
Mausoleum [Halicarnassus]. Northern Peribolus wall. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the excavated wall, with a sapper corporal standing on the left. Reproduced as a tinted lithograph in Charles Thomas Newton, 'A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae' (2 vols., London, 1861), vol. 1, plate 6 (bottom). Another co...
No. 4. Hellenic wall north of the Mausoleum [of Halicarnassus, Bodrum]. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography View of section of wall, built from large, finely jointed masonry blocks, with Corporal Jenkins standing at the left. Prints 53-57 form part of the enclosure with Newton's despatch no. 19 of 12 June 1857: 'No. 4. The Hellenic wall north of the Mausoleum, immedi...
'The Ring and the Book.' Porta San Spirito, Arezzo. Photographer: Griffin, William Hall
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the massive stone gateway set into the city wall. With a lengthy note in Hall Griffin's hand, relating the location to events in Browning's poem: 'The southern and chief gateway of Arezzo. The tower of the Pieve, Caponsacchi's church i...