Portrait of an unnamed Tajik man
Date
1815
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Unknown Deli artist (Indian) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
RCN38165
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 280mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Politics & Government
> Political doctrines
> British Empire
Politics & Government
> Political doctrines
> British colonialism
> Political doctrines
> British Empire
Politics & Government
> Political doctrines
> British colonialism
Content object
Description
Portrait of a man of the Tajik people of Afghanistan, referred to here as 'Taujik', shown full-length in summer costume. He wears a wide blue turban hat with a striped tunic, tied at the waist and brown slippers. Beneath this is a white shirt decorated with red and blue flowers and white trousers.
Plate 4 from Mountstuart Elphinstone's An account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India… (London, 1815), an account of his embassy to the ruler of Afghanistan, Shuja Shah Durrani Khan (1785-1842) in 1808.
Inscribed ‘PL. IV. A Taujik in the summer dress of Caubul. Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1815.’
The accompanying text states that: ‘The Taujiks are every where remarkable for the use of fixed habitations, and their disposition to agriculture, and other settled employments. They still retain some share of the land in the west of Afghaunistaun, of which they appear once to have been sole proprietors; but the mkost of them have lost their property, and live as tenants or servants in husbandry under Afghaun masters’.
Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779–1859), East India Company administrator from 1776, known for his periods as Resident at Poona and Governor of Bombay in the 1810s and 1820s, and involvement in the Anglo-Maratha wars.
Plate 4 from Mountstuart Elphinstone's An account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India… (London, 1815), an account of his embassy to the ruler of Afghanistan, Shuja Shah Durrani Khan (1785-1842) in 1808.
Inscribed ‘PL. IV. A Taujik in the summer dress of Caubul. Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1815.’
The accompanying text states that: ‘The Taujiks are every where remarkable for the use of fixed habitations, and their disposition to agriculture, and other settled employments. They still retain some share of the land in the west of Afghaunistaun, of which they appear once to have been sole proprietors; but the mkost of them have lost their property, and live as tenants or servants in husbandry under Afghaun masters’.
Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779–1859), East India Company administrator from 1776, known for his periods as Resident at Poona and Governor of Bombay in the 1810s and 1820s, and involvement in the Anglo-Maratha wars.
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