Unidentified photographer
1887-1896
[Nasir al-Din Shah and party]

Photograph
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Chief of the Royal Harem, Haji Sarvar Knan, seen standing to the right of of Nasir al-Din Shah, ruled the eunuchs from 1887 until the Shah's assassination in 1896.
 
This photograph was included in the exhibition "“Sailors and Daughters: Early Photography and the Indian Ocean World", Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
(Accessed: 20 October 2015)
indian-ocean.africa.si.edu/
 
LL/61967