Painting / portrait

Miniature portrait on ivory representing the Queen of Delhi, Begum Sahiba Zeenat Mahal, wife of Bahadur Shah Zafar, 1850 (c.). Described as being possibly ‘found in the streets of Delhi’ after the siege of the British Residency, or ‘otherwise secured’ by Surgeon Valentine Munbee McMaster, 78th Regiment, during the Indian Mutiny/Uprising (1857-1858), India