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ref. 51-5693 — London: circa 1842. A suite of 10 handcolored lithographs mounted on card as issued. Average sheet size 50 x 37 or 38cm. Matted. One of the lithographs is missing most of the lower blank margin and one is missing the left side of the sky.The lithographs are not numbered or titled except for Abbey 5091 the title page.According to Abbey Travel II no. 509 there were 14 prints and they were tinted and not handcolored .After forcing the Bolan Pass and capturing Kandahar without a fight Sir John Keane's Army of the Indus advanced on the formidable Ghazni fortress. Protected by thick 60-feet high walls it presented a major problem for the British who lacked heavy artillery. They were only able to capture it because Mohan Lal a Kashmiri interpreter spy and assistant to the political officer Captain Sir Alexander Burnes managed to discover that one of the gates was poorly defended.Wingate was in India from March 1835 to January 1842. His sketch of the fortress of Ghuznee which as company commander in the 2nd Queen’s Royal Regiment of Foot he had stormed in July 1839 was published as a lithograph in London that same year one of fourteen large coloured lithographs by Weld Taylor after Wingate in an album entitled The Storming of Ghuznee and Kelat published 1842: copy British Library Oriental and India Office Collections. London: circa 1842 unknown