Dost Mohammed Khan by Emily Eden

Dost Mohammed Khan (1793 – 1863), Muhammed Akram Khan, Hyder Khan, Abdool Ghunee Khan

Eden here sketches Dost Mohammed Khan with two of his sons, Muhammad Akram Khan and Haider Khan, and his cousin Abdal Ghani Khan. Dost, Emir of Afghanistan, was deposed by the British and exiled to Calcutta in 1841.

Tinted lithograph by Lower Dickinson (1819 – 1908), after a drawing by Emily Eden (1795 – 1869), published by J. Dickinson & Son, London

Size: 20.5 x 14.25 in. (52.1 x 36.2 cms.)
Date of printing – 1844