SdA 2-28 — Bassin d’eau dans le parc du palais bagh-e shahi

• Souvenir d’Afghanistan, série 1 (petit format) : n’y figure pas.
• Souvenir d'Afghanistan, série 3 (double face) SdA 3-158 : identiques.
• Gray, J. (1895) : At the court of the Amir, p. 17 : «It is a large white building, standing in the midst of well laid out gardens, in which are many varieties of Eastern and European fruit-trees and flowers. The Palace was semi-European in its internal decoration. [...] There was a large central hall with a domed roof, and smaller rooms at the side. […]»
• Sultan Mahomed Khan (1900) : The life of Abdur Rahman, Amir of Afghanistan, Vol. 2, p. 104 : «All my residential palaces are built on sites that command a beautiful view, and in a bright, breezy place. They are surrounded by gardens and flowers, and they are built in such a style that it is possible in the same building to have warm rooms for winter use, and open verandahs with large windows for the summer. The rooms are so arranged that the spring blossoms may be watched as they break from the trees, and the gorgeous yellow hues of the autumn, and the dazzling falls of the winter snow and the moonlight nights are enjoyed by all the inmates of my palaces who take the trouble to sit at theses windows.»
• Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908) : Afghanistan and Nepal, p. 68 : «Two hundred yards from the west gate of the city is a palace belonging to the Amir, but now rarely occupied by him. It is a striking building, constructed about 1892, in a garden 200 yards square, surrounded by high walls. The palace measures about 135 by 144 feet, has large underground rooms for use in the hot season, and a wide veranda all round, from which a charming view is obtained of the valley and adjacent hills.»
• Adamec, L.W. (1985) : Kabul And Southeast Afghanistan, pp. 297-300 : Jalalabad (Town).

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