A portrait drawing of Kâmil Pasha (1833-1913): full length, standing to right; wearing a fez and frock coat. Inscribed, upper centre: Kiamil Pasha. Signed, lower right with the artist's initials.

Mehmed Kâmil Pasha was an Ottoman statesman, born in Cyprus, who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman empire from 1885 to 1891, and again in 1895 and in 1912. During an early appointment within the household of the Khedive of Egypt, he visited London for the Great Exhibition of 1851. His experience fostered a lifelong admiration for Britain, and he was single-minded in his determination to nurture friendship between the Ottomans and the British.

In December 1911 King George V and Queen Mary were proclaimed Emperor and Empress of India at the Delhi Durbar. (A durbar is a court or official reception held, traditionally, by an Indian ruler.) Almost all of the ruling princes and noblemen of India were in attendance, in addition to thousands of other Indian dignitaries, in order to pay obeisance to the symbolic heads of British colonial power. George Percy Jacomb-Hood accompanied the royal couple on their Coronation Tour of the Indian subcontinent, and this portrait is one of the many drawings bound into an album commemorating King George V's and Queen Mary's tours of the empire in 1901, and 1911.