Shah Shuja-ool-Mulk
Watercolour
1835 (painted)
1835 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Shah Shuja-ool-Mulk (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `Shah Shuja-ool-Mulk', 1835, by Godfrey Thomas Vigne FRGS |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed with title and the features finished from memory after one sitting at Lodianah in 1835 and Shah Shuja and number 31, and on a separate label Elder brother of Dost Mahomed whom we placed on the throne of Cabul dethroning Dost Mahomed. |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - `acquired from Henry D'Olier Vigne, great-nephew of the artist, May 1971, £200'. [with SD.1087- SD.1100, SD.1103 & 1104: SD.1105, SD.107-SD.1125, SD.1127-1130, SD.1132-1134, SD.1137-1138, SD.1150, SD.1153] |
| Historical context | Drawn by the artist at Lodiana (Ludhiana), in the Punjab, while the Shah was in exile and under the protection of Ranjit Singh: see Vigne, A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, And Afghanistan ..., 1840, pp.7-9 & 353-4. Installed by the British as Amir of Kabul, in place of Dost Muhammad Khan, 1840. Of the Sirdozye family, and not the brother of Dost Muhammad, who was a Barukzye. Cf. sketches in album in India Office Library and Records (WD.3110 f.39f, 40a-d). |
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| Accession number | SD.1106 |
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| Record created | April 18, 2008 |
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