Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait, lightly hand-coloured. This figure may be the officer identified as Man Singh in the preceding print. Subjects = Indian Army; military (general); Sikhs
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated portrait in profile, wearing a black woollen hat, an elaborately patterned coat and grasping a sword in his right hand. A portrait taken on the same occasion as print 24 (qv), and almost certainly the photograph referred to in Baker & Burke's 1...
[Group at (?)Fort Jamrud:] Surg Gen H.W. Bellew, Amir Sher Ali, Sir F. Pollock, Gen Crawford Chamberlain. Photographer: Baker and Burke
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait, probably take at Fort Jamrud, with Amir Sher Ali seated in the centre of the three British officials. This group is almost certainly the photograph listed in the 1872 Baker & Burke catalogue as no. 10 in the series of portraits of Sher Ali Khan an...
[Men of the Pakpoo Tribe, Tiznap River, south-west China]. Photographer: Chapman, Edward Francis
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of two squatting figures. This photograph also appears as plate 21 of Sir Thomas Forsyth's 'Report of a mission to Yarkund in 1873' (Calcutta, 1875), which is illustrated with 102 original tipped-in prints and describes the mission sent to Yarkand for ...
Pakhpu of Khalistan, upper course of Tiznaf River, Yarkand. Photographer: Chapman, Edward Francis
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Two men squatting in front of a tent. This photograph also appears as print 20 from Forsyth's Report (see preceding print, which shows the same figures) and is there titled 'Men of the Pakpoo tribe living in the Valleys bordering that of the Tisnaf River'. Sub...
[Portrait of Salar Jang, Prime Minister of Hyderabad.] Photographer: Nixon, H. J.
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated studio portrait of Sir Salar Jang (1829-1883), Prime Minister of Hyderabad 1853-83, wearing a long velvet coat with frogging. His right arm rests on a heavy bookcase containing a set of 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Another copy of this print can be ...