Photograph of Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia; full-length portrait, in military uniform and wearing a sword on his left side and resting his right hand on a chair. Signed in his hand (in Persian) ‘Nasir al-Din Shah’. Annotated on verso: 'Schah of Persia / 1873'.

This photograph was probably taken and printed during the Shah's visit to Russia in May 1873. He visited Queen Victoria later in 1873, the first Persian ruler to ever visit Britain. See RCINs 2915330, 2915331 and 2915332 for other photographic portraits of the Shah, and RCIN 403888 for an enamel on porcelain copy of a photograph of the same sitter.