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ID: 700008014
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008014
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
[Golab Khan, Jemadar] (salted paper print; Felice Beato (British, born Italy, 1832 - 1909) (British Pho...; before May 10, 1857; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2007.26.206.3)
Note: Portrait of a man dressed in traditional garments and turban. A sash is worn over his light colored shirt. The sitter was a servant at the residence of Mr. Hervey Greathed, Commissioner of Meerut; seen as a hero who saved the household during insurgent siege at Uttar Pradesh, India.
Titles:
[Golab Khan, Jemadar] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)
India, China, etc. (C,U,GP,English,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
salted paper print [300127149] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs), photographic prints, <photographic prints by process>)
photographic print [300127104]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs))

Classifications:
photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: before May 10, 1857

Creator Display:
Felice Beato (British, born Italy, 1832 - 1909) (British Photographer) [preferred,JPGM]
Beato, Felice (British photographer, ca. 1830-after 1904, of Italian origin) Qualifier: undetermined Extent: undetermined [500002985]
Locations:
Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 2007.26.206.3
Credit Line: Partial gift from the Wilson Centre for Photography
Other: Creation: Bhārat [7000198] Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Display Materials: Salted paper print
salted paper [300127389]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by function>, photographic paper)
salted paper processes [300053495]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes)

Dimensions: Image: 7.3 x 9.7 cm (2 7/8 x 3 13/16 in.); Mount: 44.8 x 37.3 cm (17 5/8 x 14 11/16 in.)
Cultures:
British (preferred)

General Subject:
portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
Golab Khan, Jemadar (Indian citizen, hero, 19th century) [500372888]
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
single-sitter portrait [300404138]
.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

Inscriptions: (Recto, mount) inscribed in black ink, at right center below image: 'Golab Khan. Jemadar. "The Rose." saved the lives / of Hervey and Eliza Greathed / at Meerut May 10 ["10" inscribed in purple pencil] 1857 at / the outbreak of the Mutiny: / risking his own life to / save his Master & Mistress.'
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
............... India, China, etc.
Sources and Contributors:
[Golab Khan, Jemadar]........ [JPGM,VP]
........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
India, China, etc......... [JPGM,VP]
........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
..... Greathed, Letters Written During the Siege of Delhi (1858) 291 ff.
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