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Photo 27(23)
- Record Id:
- 040-003041411
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003041388
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100035590497.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100135041305.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 27(23)
- Title:
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Amir Sher Ali. Photographer: Baker and Burke
- Scope & Content:
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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 1872 catalogue as no.3 in the series of 'Photographs of Amir Shere Ali Khan and Suite...The Amir, sitting. Large size. Head in profile'. For another copy of this print, see Mss Eur F197/37 (40). For a similar portrait taken at the same sitting, see Photo 50/1 (40).
[Albumen print, 204x254mm].
Subjects = Afghan rulers
Location = Jamrud; Khyber Pass; North-West Frontier Province; Pakistan
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003041388
040-003041411 - Is part of:
- Photo 27 : Miscellaneous views in India. Photographers: Felice Beato, Baker and Burke, Edward Francis Chapman, Alexander Rea, Deen Dayal,…
Photo 27(23) : Amir Sher Ali. Photographer: Baker and Burke - Hierarchy:
- 032-003041388[0023]/040-003041411
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 27
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100135041305.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1869
- End Date:
- 1869
- Date Range:
- 1869
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Loose
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known