Portrait of an unnamed Aimaq 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 Aimaq people of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is shown wearing a brown tunic over a white shirt and trousers with a white turban.
Plate 11 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. XI. A Man of the Tymunee Eimauks. Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1815”
According to the accompanying text, this ‘is a good likeness of a man of the Tymunee tribe…their head-dress is oftener a cap of black lamb-skin than a turban.’
An original 1808-1810 watercolour of this subject is in the British Library.
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 11 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. XI. A Man of the Tymunee Eimauks. Published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1815”
According to the accompanying text, this ‘is a good likeness of a man of the Tymunee tribe…their head-dress is oftener a cap of black lamb-skin than a turban.’
An original 1808-1810 watercolour of this subject is in the British Library.
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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