Dost Md Khan taken at Kabul
Watercolour
Afghanistan 1835-1838
Artist: Vigne, Godfrey Thomas, born 1801 - died 1863

Inscribed with title and similarly beneath, and on a separate label Dost Mahomed The father of Shere Ali the present Ameer of Cabul.

Dost Muhammad Khan was Amir of Kabul 1834-40, when deposed by the British in favour of Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk. A watercolour of his favourite horse was in the collection of Mr. Randolph Vigne (with another of Ranjit Singh on horseback).

Reproduced as a lithograph in Vigne, A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, And Afghanistan ..., 1840, frontispiece, and also see pp.335-66 et passim.

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