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Add Or 5475, f.17v
- Record Id:
- 032-003264146
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264146
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x000253
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 5475, f.17v
- Title:
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Zinat Mahal Begum. the favourite queen of the Emperor Bahadur Shah. Photograph pased in after 1857 in the 'Metcalfe Album.'
- Scope & Content:
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The wife of the King of Delhi at the time of the Mutiny 1857.
Photograph; 10.5 by 7 cm.
Note: Zinat Mahal Begum, the favourite queen. This was presumably acquired by Metcalfe’s son, Sir John Theophilus Metcalfe (1828-83), who was Magistrate at Delhi in 1857, and pasted in at that time. ‘We [the Bayley family] possess her photograph taken after her capture’ (MssEur Photo 31/1, p. 278).
Reproduced: C.T. Metcalfe, ‘Two Native Narratives of the Mutiny in Delhi’, London, 1898, frontispiece 2: ‘The Begum Zurat [‘sic’] Mahal, chief wife of the King of Delhi, taken when she was a prisoner after the Mutiny, 1858.’
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264146
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264146
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1857
- End Date:
- 1857
- Date Range:
- 1857
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: photograph
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Zinat Mahal Begum, wife of Bahadur Shah II, d 1882
- Subjects:
- Portraits
Women