Persia

Various sizes, most framed and glazed, one of Naser al-Din Shah in a fine and rare engraved Qajar silver frame

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The collection comprises eight portraits of Naser al-Din Shah (1831-1896), seven of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah (1853-1907), and six others of the court.

Naser al-Din Shah

1. Naser al-Din Shah, albumen print (150 x 103mm.)
2. Naser al-Din Shah, albumen print cabinet card by A. Liébert of Paris (135 x 98mm.)
3. Naser al-Din Shah as young boy with members of his court, albumen print of a painting c.1847 (105 x 125mm.), captioned on the mount in manuscript ink in Persian
4. Naser al-Din Shah by B. Kargopouli of Constantinople, albumen print cabinet card (140 x 102mm.), mounted in a fine engraved silver Qajar frame
5. Naser al-Din Shah, lithographed portrait with a richly decorated coloured border by E. Desmaisons (355 x 265mm.), published by Lemercier (Paris, c.1857)
6. Naser al-Din Shah, hand-coloured lithographed portrait after a photograph (295 x 218mm.)
7. Naser al-Din Shah, oval albumen print cabinet card (121 x 88mm.)
8. Naser al-Din Shah, Woodbury-type portrait by H.R. Barraud of London (245 x 178mm.), on publisher’s card mount, from Barraud's series ‘Men and Women of the Day’, (1889)

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah

9. Mozaffar ad-Din Shah, coloured print (295 x 190mm.), from ‘The Sphere’ magazine (1906)
10. Print of the Shah’s visit to Constantinople (20 x 102mm.)
11. Mozaffar ad-Din Shah with his court, silver print (105 x 148mm.
12. Mozaffar ad-Din Shah, gelatin silver print (165 x 115mm.)
13. Mozaffar ad-Din Shah, silver print (160 x 110mm.)
14. Mozaffar ad-Din Shah and Edward VII at Portsmouth, August 1902, silver print (70 x 955mm.)
15. Mozaffar ad-Din Shah with his first minister Amin al-Soltan and members of his court in France, silver print (117 x 177mm.)

Members of the court

16. Kamran Mirza (1856-1927), governor of Tehran, albumen print cabinet card (135 x 105mm.)
17. Minister in the court of Naser al-Din Shah, albumen print cabinet card by the court photographer (140 x 100mm.), some wear and loss to image
18. Chief of police of Tehran during the Ahmad Shah Qajar period (215 x 160mm.)
19. Prince Arfa' ed-Dowleh having his stolen possessions returned by the governor of the Fars region, with Prime Minister Dr Mossadegh, and two other officials, albumen print (147 x 197mm.)
20. Prince Zill al-Sultan, governor of Isfahan, albumen print (200 x 140mm.)
21. A shooting scene, with presentation inscription in Persian (1318AH/1901), silver print (112 x 82mm.)