The Bride of the Kuzzelbash Kabul
1836
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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Godfrey Thomas Vigne
Godfrey Thomas Vigne was an English amateur cricketer and traveller.
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watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Bride of the Kuzzelbash Kabul is a 1836 watercolor by Godfrey Thomas Vigne, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a young woman, the wife of a powerful local leader. Vigne met her near Ghazni while traveling through Afghanistan in the 1830s. Her husband accompanied him to Kabul, where this portrait was made. Her tribe, the Qizilbash, played a big role in Afghan politics at the time. Vigne sketched many people and places during his long journey from Turkey to India. Look up the artist Vigne, Godfrey Thomas (FRGS).
The portrait depicts a young woman who was the bride of Murtaza Khan, leader of a Qizilbash tribe, encountered near Ghazni and accompanied to Kabul. Created by Godfrey Thomas Vigne during his travels between 1832 and 1839, the drawing is part of a larger collection of Persian, Afghan, and Indian portraits and landscapes held in institutions such as the Searight Collection and the India Office Library. Vigne documented his journey in *A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan* (1840). The work was later acquired in 1971 from the artist’s great-nephew.
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Godfrey Thomas Vigne was an English amateur cricketer and traveller.
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