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A Hindkee in the winter dress of Peshawer.
Date
1813
Measurement
height 23.7 centimetres, width 16.8 centimetres
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Scope and content : Watercolour by Robert Melville Grindlay (1786-1877), inscribed with title and signed 'R. M. Grindlay delt. Feby. 1813.' Also inscribed in pencil on album page, 'Hindu of Affghanistan.'This is the orignal watercolour for the illustration reproduced as plate V, facing p. 316, in Mountstuart Elphinstone, Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (London, 1815).