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John Burke
Amir Muhammad Yakub Khan (1849-1923)
1879-1880
Albumen print
21.8 x 17.4 cm (image)
The Royal Collection
RCIN 2702061
LL/93675
Portrait of the Emir of Afghanistan, who is seated in a chair. He wears a ceremonial military uniform with pith helmet and holds a sword in his left hand. He was Emir for nine months in 1879 after the death of his father Sher Ali Khan in February 1879.
Photograph in album presented by the Earl of Lytton (1831-91), Viceroy of India to Queen Victoria in 1880
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