John Burke
Jellallabad, the main street shewing covered Bazaar.

Jellallabad, the main street shewing covered Bazaar.

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Jellallabad, the main street shewing covered Bazaar.
Jellallabad, the main street shewing covered Bazaar.
ArtistBritish, 1843(?)–1900
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Jellallabad, the main street shewing covered Bazaar.
  • from the portfolio Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan
Date1879, printed September 2011
Place depictedJalalabad, Afghanistan
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 12 × 14 15/16 in. (30.5 × 38 cm)
Sheet: 15 × 20 in. (38.1 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Morris Weiner
Object number2016.224.31
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Chromogenic print; copy of albumen silver print.




ProvenanceThe artist; [Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by Morris Weiner, Houston, 2012; given to MFAH, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed and numbered in original image, recto, lower left: Burke 75

Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: BY APPOINTMENT // JNO : BURKE // LATE // BAKER & BURKE // ARTISTE PHOTOGRAPHER // PUNJAB.

Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk // Photographs from the war in Afghanistan // by John Burke and Simon Norfolk // Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 // An archival, digital, chromogenic print on Fujicolor Crystal Archive // Photograph by John Burke // From a scan made by The Wilson Centre for Photography // One of 104 prints in a Burke + Norfolk portfolio special edition // Edition number 1 of eight [1 is handwritten in pencil over a stamped underline]

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