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Rattray, JamesBiblio.com
Dost Mahommed King of Caubul and His Youngest Son
1848réf. 005411London: Hering & Remington 1848. Near Fine. 1 hand-colored lithograph 400 x 475 mm. image is 276 x 318 mm.; mat is 19.5 x 20 inches. The lithograph was created by Edmund Walker 1813 or 1814-1882 of Day & Son after James Rattray's drawing. James Rattray 1818-1854 was a lieutenant in the British Bengal Army during the first Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842. The sketches he produced were published in 30 plates in Scenery Inhabitants & Costumes of Afghaunistan 1847-48. This is plate no. 2 a portrait of Dost Mohammed who had been deposed as Emir of Afghanistan. In January 1841 when Rattray was granted an audience with him in Peshawar Dost Mohammed was a prisoner on his way to exile in Calcutta. Rattray wrote that since Dost Mohammed had been "a ruler just and merciful and attentive to affairs of state" the people of Peshawur thought that he had been unjustly treated by the British. Green dealer's label on back of mat from Harold T. Storey London. Very scarce. In Near Fine Condition: lithograph is clean and bright; minor soiling to mat. Hering & Remington unknown
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