Lt H B Melville 64th Native Bengal Infantry
lithograph, tinted, print
Accession Number
NAM.1963-03-80-9
Description
Lt H B Melville 64th Native Bengal Infantry Tinted lithograph. From ‘Portraits of the Cabul Prisoners’, a group of 30 tinted lithographs by Lowes Dickinson 24 of them after Lt (later Gen) Vincent Eyre, Bengal Artillery, published by John Murray, 1843 (c). Companion to Lt Vincent Eyre ‘The Military Operations at Cabul with a Journal of Imprisonment in Afghaistan’, or Lady Sale, ‘Journal of the disaster in Afghanistan’. Associated with 1st Afghan War (1838-1842).
Events
Kabul, Retreat from, 1842 (1st Afghan War 1838-1842)