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Some Iranian and Afghan Portraits in the Public Record Office

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Isabel Miller
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For several years now the Lafayette Project has been compiling a data base of portrait photographs from the Copy I collection at the Public Record Office, Kew (PRO). The Lafayette Project was founded to further the cataloguing of historic photographs and funding by the Elm Trust has enabled the project to set new standards for the documentation of historic photographs based on careful analysis of an image and its contents as a historical source. The data base is a means not only of investigating portraits but also a starting point for entering into the wider scope of the collection to pursue historical research.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , November 1998 , pp. 341 - 349
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1998

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References

1 Meen, V. B. and Tushingham, A. D., Crown Jewels of Iran (Toronto, 1968), p. 52.Google Scholar

2 Queen Victoria's Diary quoted in Wright, Denis, The Persians among the English (London, 1985), p. 129.Google Scholar

3 Robinson, B. W., “Persian painting under the Zand and Qajar dynasties”, Chapter 23, Cambridge History of Iran, vii, eds. Avery, P., Hambly, G. and Melville, C. (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 887–8, fig. 38(b).Google Scholar

4 I am grateful to Barbara Borkowy (researcher for the Lafayette Project) for allowing me to consult her unpublished study of Count Ostrorog's career.