A watercolour of two men of the Kurram Valley (in present day Pakistan), standing, both armed with rifles. Signed and dated. Inscribed at the bottom: Types in the Kuram Valley.

These unnamed men were probably inhabitants of the Kurram Valley, a region in the North West Frontier Province of India, now Pakistan. They were perhaps Pashtun Turis, who were subject to attacks from neighbouring Pashtun groups of conflicting religious beliefs.The valley was located between areas populated by religiously hostile groups. Eager to enlist British support, the Turis invited the British to take over administration of the Kurram Valley in 1892. The British welcomed the offer, keen to gain a foothold within the Kurram Valley in order to guard against the possibility of unified and concerted resistance to British rule in northern India.

This is a portrait from the Indian sketches album comprising watercolours and drawings by Egron Lundgren, Nicholas Chevalier, Count von Seckendorff and Robert Gosset Woodthorpe. Most of Lundgren's works within the album are set against a backdrop of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and were presented to Queen Victoria. Chevalier's watercolours represent high-ranking Sikh and Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) people who would have sat to the artist during his visits to India and Ceylon while journeying with Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, on the homeward voyage aboard HMS Galatea in 1870.