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| Keywords: King Gurgin Khan.jpg Artwork Dip Chand en Gurgin Khan is shown seated on a terace and smoking from huqqa In one hand he holds a small wine cup One of the two serving attendants stands facing him and holds a tray full of small wine cups Various courtly accessories have been placed tidely in a row in front of Gurghin Khan and also his battle axe has been placxed on the floor next to him ca other date - 1760 1763 gouache paper Institution Victoria and Albert Museum London object history en he subject of this picture formerly in the Fullarton collection is most likely the Armenian cloth-merchant Gregory hence Gurghin Khan who trained Nawab Mir Qasim's troops for their engagements with the British Raymond the translator of Ghulam Husayn's history gives the following acount of him 'Gurghin-qhan was a man born at Ispahan the capital of Persia and had a very remarkable physiognomy He was above the ordinary size strong built with a very fair complexion large black eyes full of fire an aquiline nose forming a ridge in the middle of its length and eyebrows very arched that joined together so as to form a point going downwards towards the nose Nothing was wanting to that man to render him capable of shining even in Europe but education; he owed everything to his own genius and nothing to art or cultivation ' Husayn 1789 II p 503fn Information field Place of origin Murshidabad India html exhibition history en Arts of Bengal Whitechapel Art Gallery 30/12/1979-30/09/2011 credit line en The painting is in the style of the Mughal provincial court painting in particular Murshidabad school accession number D 1180-1903 http //collections vam ac uk/item/O97215/an-officer-probably-gurgin-khan-painting-dip-chand/ Gurgin Khan seated smoking on a terrace PD-Art-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Armenians in art Smoking in art Paintings in the Victoria and Albert Museum Hookahs in art | ||||
