Carte-de-visite of Sayyid Barghash bin Said al-Busaidi (1836-88), Sultan of Zanzibar.
MAULL & CO., photographer.

Carte-de-visite of Sayyid Barghash bin Said al-Busaidi (1836-88), Sultan of Zanzibar.

CARTE-DE-VISITE OF THE SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR

Albumen carte-de-visite, measuring 88 by 59mm. Card trimmed at corners (presumably to fit into an album), otherwise very good. Bookseller’s ticket affixed to verso. London, Maull & Co., 1875.

£450.00
MAULL & CO., photographer.
Carte-de-visite of Sayyid Barghash bin Said al-Busaidi (1836-88), Sultan of Zanzibar.

A handsome carte-de-visite of Sayyid Barghash bin Said al-Busaidi (1836-88), who ruled Zanzibar from 1870 to 1888. The National Portrait Gallery hold two other photographs of Barghash by Maull & Co., a carte-de-visite and a cabinet card, the latter showing the Sultan’s signature beneath a standing portrait.

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