Robert KER PORTER (1777 - 1842, Scottish)

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Sir Robert KER PORTER (1777–1842)

Portrait of Futteh Ali Shah, Second Qajar Emperor of Iran

Pencil & watercolor on paper

11 x 8.5 inches (sheet)

Literature:
-Joseph M. Upton, The History of Modern Iran: An Interpretation. Harvard University Press. Cambridge M.A, 1960, p.4. Piggot, John (1874). Persia: Ancient & Modern. London: Henry S. King & Co. p. 89
-John H. Waller, Beyond the Khyber Pass: the road to British disaster in the First Afghan War, Random House: London, 1990, p. 59.