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Khyber Pass (pass)

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Group of Afredees from the Khyber Pass, 1860 - 1865

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022D/50
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295 x 210 mm. Group portrait of four Afridi warriors with their flintlock muskets, known as jezails, posed on the mud ramparts of a fort. A heavily reworked rendering of this print, entitled 'Mountaineers in action', is reproduced as an engraving in Louis Rousselet, ‘India and its native princes’ (London 1867 edn.) p. 506. Shepherd no. 1387.

Dates: 1860 - 1865
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