M. H. Abdul Karim [photograph].
Record ID:
355958
Accession number:
MA 702.55
Published:
Ryde : Hughes & Mullins, [1891]
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description:
1 photographic print : b&w ; 160 x 105 mm
Notes:
The photograph was taken by the firm Hughes & Mullins, but Jabez Hughes died in 1884 so the photograph must have been taken by Gustav Mullins.
Title and date (17th April, 1891") are from a manuscript note in the lower right corner of the cabinet card.
Part of a collection of letters related to Queen Victoria's foreign journeys (MA 702). Letters are described in individual records; see MA 702 for more information.
Summary:
Cabinet card with a full-length portrait of Abdul Karim, Queen Victoria's Indian secretary, standing next to a chair, holding a closed umbrella with his right hand and with his left hand in his jacket pocket.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1910.
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