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Fath-Ali Shah Qajar

Portrait of Fath ‘Ali Shah Qajar. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Place Made: Iran . Qajar period
Portrait by Mihr ‘Ali, between 1809 and 1810 (Hermitage Museum)
Muhammad Hasan (Persian, active 1808–1840). Prince Yahya, ca. the 1830s. Prince Yahya, born in 1817, was the forty-third son of the Qajar ruler Fath Ali Shah (r. 1798–1834). Brooklyn Museum
Fat‘ḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, in 1798

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