This Drawing was taken from Kutl-gah, or the Place of Slaughter. In the fore-ground is a Camp-follower asleep, and three Beloochees, eager to wreak their cowardly vengeance on the unprotected, are stealthily approaching him, with the intention of committing murder; a piece of ordnance is also introduced, drawn by camels, on the line of march. It was under the mountain of Baba-Naunee the British Forces were encamped, and from which they marched to Abigoon, a distance of eight miles and a quarter, over a road of loose stones and pebbles, affording but little hold for the feet, and very fatiguing both to man and beast, and this was the case for nine-tenths of the distance. Sketches in Afghanistan, Henry Graves & Co. and W.H. Allen & Co., London, 1842. Letterpress title printed in blue incorporating list of plates, tinted lithographic title, dedication leaf, 25 tinted plates by Louis and Charles Haghe. This is one of the earliest collections of views of Afghanistan. James Atkinson, the celebrated translator of Firdausi’s Shah Nameh and one of the first Europeans to explore Afghanistan, was on of the pioneers of oriental studies. The lithographers Louis and Charles Haghe were involved in a number of important publications in the 1840’s and 1850’s and are celebrated for the particular high quality of their work.