This view was taken from the camp of the Fourth Brigade, about a mile and half on the south of Candahar, a fortified town of Afghanistan, the capital of the province of Candahar, near which Akbar Khan (by whom fell Sir W. Macnaghten) so unsuccessfully marched, when he was met by Shah Mahommed, with 6000 horse at Jakan, near Candahar, and compelled, with considerable loss, amidst confusion and defeat, to fly towards the Indus, which he afterwards crossed near Leia, taking temporary refuge in the territory of Mahommed Khan Suddozye. General Nott was in command here, with 10,000 men, having successfully repulsed the enemy before it, with a trifling loss on his part, and to whose relief General England has now succeeded in marching. The city is situated on the north side of an extensive plain, about two miles from the lofty mountain called Baba-Wulee, and is surrounded by a mud wall, about thirty feet high, with numerous bastions; the length of the city is about five thousand feet, and four thousand in breadth, with a small stream running across the inferior from north to south. 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.