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Photo 500

Record Id:
032-003096687
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003096687
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100025910660.0x0001fd
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 500
Title:

Miscellaneous portraits of the royal family of Oudh and other sitters. Photographer(s): Ahmad Ali Khan

Scope & Content:

Collection of loose portrait photographs mounted on card. The prints can be broken down into two broad categories as follows:

Prints 1-4 Portraits of members of the royal family of Oudh, c.1855. These four salt prints, now much faded, are laid down onto contemporary card mounts within extravagant illuminated decorative borders. Below each portrait is a paragraph of (?)Urdu text, so far untranslated. These prints are almost certainly the work of Ahmed Ali Khan of Lucknow (compare print type, poses, use of gold leaf, with portraits in Photo 296. The chair in which many of the sitters are placed in those albums is also identical to the one seen in these prints).

Prints 5-9 Miscellaneous European portraits, 1860s-70s. Prints 5-7 are photographic copies of paintings, prints 8-9 are original photographs.

Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003096687
Is part of:
not applicable
Contains:
Photo 500(1) : Portrait of Wajid Ali Shah, King of Oudh 1847-56. Photographer: Ahmad Ali Khan
Photo 500(2) : Portrait of Akhtar Mahall Nauwab Raunaq-ara, Queen of Oudh and wife of Wajid Ali Shah. Photographer: Ahmad Ali Khan
Photo 500(3) : Portrait of Nawaub Raj Begum Sahibah of Oudh. Photographer: Ahmad Ali Khan
Photo 500(4) : Portrait of Mumtaz 'Alam Nauwab Qaisar Mahall Sahibah of Oudh. Photographer: Ahmad Ali Khan
Photo 500(5) : Portrait of Wiliam Fraser, Political Agent at Delhi, 1830-5. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 500(6) : Portrait of Captain Charles Pratt Kennedy, Bengal Artillery. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 500(7) : Portrait of Major George Broadfoot, Madras Engineers. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 500(8) : Portrait of Rev. Stephen Hislop. Photographer: Unknown
Photo 500(9) : Portrait of Robert A. Sterndale, Financial Department, Government of India. Photographer: Unknown

 

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Container:
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
9 items
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Not applicable
Scripts:
Not applicable
Techniques:
Photograph
Photographic Print
Salted Paper Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print
Start Date:
1855
End Date:
1889
Date Range:
1855-1880s
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 98 mm x 61 mm to 296 mm x 220 mm

Source of Acquisition:

1922: Prints 8-9 presented by Colonel Alister William Jamieson. Originally IOL Scrapbook 305. See also Mss B.335. Acquired 1922.

Material Type:
Photographs
Legal Status:
Not Known
Names:
Ahmad Ali Khan