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Painting

ca.1810
Place of origin
Tehran (painted)

Portrait in oils of Fath ‘Ali Shah Qajar, ruler of Iran from 1797 to 1834, by his court painter Mihr 'Ali, Tehran, about 1810

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Painting
Materials and techniques
painted
Brief description
Portrait in oils of Fath ‘Ali Shah Qajar, ruler of Iran from 1797 to 1834, by his court painter Mihr 'Ali, Tehran, about 1810
Dimensions
  • Height: 2310mm (Note: Measurement including frame)
  • Width: 1363mm (Note: Measurement including frame)
  • Depth: 45mm (Note: including frame)
  • Height: 2173mm (Note: unframed)
  • Width: 1234mm (Note: unframed)
  • Depth: 31mm (Note: unframed)
Marks and inscriptions
  • رقم کمتر[ین] غلا[م] مهر علی (In the bottom left corner of the painting, parallel to the bottom edge)
    Translation
    Written by the least of servants, Mihr 'Ali
  • السلطان فتحعلی شاه قاجار (In the shaped compartment imitating a seal, top right)
    Translation
    Sultan Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar
  • (The third inscription, in the four-part box beneath the seal-shaped name and titles, is so abraded that it cannot be read)
Credit line
From the B.W. (Robbie) and Oriel Robinson Collection. Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by H M Government and allocated to the V&A, 2022.
Object history
Purchased by B.W. Robinson from Geoffrey Houghton Brown in South Kensington, London, before 1958. Robinson published it as being in his own collection in 1963.
Subject depicted
Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar
Association
Fath 'Ali Shah
Bibliographic references
  • B.W. Robinson, The Court Painters of Fath ‘Ali Shah, Eretz-Israel, vol. xxx, L.A. Mayer Memorial Volume, 1963, pl. 3.
  • S. J. Falk, Qajar Paintings, London, 1972, p.38 and fig.13.
Collection
Middle East Section
Accession number
ME.9-2022

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Record createdNovember 29, 2020
Record URL
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