Frontispiece: Beloochees in the Bolan Pass.
From ‘Sketches in Afghaunistan’, an incomplete set of 21 out of 27 lithographs by Louis and Charles Haghe after Jas Atkinson, nd.
Published by Henry Graves and Company, 1 Jul 1842.

Atkinson, a doctor by training and an accomplished Persian scholar, had accompanied the army of the Indus on its march to Kabul and returned to Bengal in 1841 before the massacre of the army of occupation. His work is one of the earliest collections of views of Afghanistan.

Associated with the 1st Afghan War (1838-1842).