A PORTRAIT OF A PASHTUN RECRUIT IN THE STYLE OF THE FRASER ALBUM
Haryana or Delhi, Northern India, 20th century

Opaque pigments and black ink on laid European paper, the vertical portrait depicting a standing, fully armed, white-clad Pashtun, wearing a multi-folded green turban, in his hand a rosary bead, around his belt two tulwar swords, a khanjar, and a katar dagger, to complete the scene bow and arrows, and a rounded black shield to the back, the depiction following the same style and composition of pages from the Company School Fraser Album, mounted, glazed and framed, 43cm x 32.5cm including the frame.