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His tough, swarthy features make a striking contrast with the pale skin and meek demeanour of his young and beautiful bride. [See her portrait, SD.1117.] The pair of drawings are two of a large group of Persian, Afghan and Indian portraits and landscapes (now mainly in the Searight Collection, the India Office Library and the Royal Geographical Society) that were done by Vigne during his long journey, between 1832 and 1839, through Turkey and Persia to India, and thence northwards to the Western Himalayas and later Afghanistan. Vigne published an account of his Afghanistan trip in A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan (1840). A further visit made by Vigne to the Near East in 1843-44 is also represented by drawings in the Searight Collection.","physicalDescription":"Watercolour drawing","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Vigne, Godfrey Thomas (FRGS)","id":"A17853"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"watercolour","id":"x33202"}],"techniques":[{"text":"watercolour drawing","id":"x37878"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"}],"styles":[{"text":"Orientalism","id":"x31272"},{"text":"British School","id":"x30967"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2008BV6620"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLD","id":"THES49658"},"free":"","case":"SCX","shelf":"8","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"watercolour","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Afghanistan","id":"x30023"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1836","earliest":"1836-01-01","latest":"1836-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"20.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"16","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Inscribed with title and number 23, and Mortazeh Khan Kuzzelbash  Servant of Nawab Jubar Khan  aged 60. 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On the `Kuzzelbash' tribe, see pp.167-8.\r\nCf. sketches in album in India Office Library and Records (WD.3110 f.39f, 40a-d).","briefDescription":"Watercolour, `The Kuzzelbash of Kabul', 1836, by Godfrey Thomas Vigne FRGS","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Afghanistan","id":"x30023"},{"text":"Kabul","id":"x35605"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Murtaza Khan","id":"N7150"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"Kizilbas","id":"x42392"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["SD.1118"],"accessionNumberNum":"1118","accessionNumberPrefix":"SD","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-18","recordCreationDate":"2008-04-21","availableToBook":false}}