Published in Jens Kröger: 2004. Islamische Kunst in Berliner Sammlungen, p. 199. The text of the illustration there: Portrait of Ali Murad Khan, despotic ruler of Iran, in Baghdad in 1785. This shah from the short-lived Zand dynasty defended his claims to the Persian throne from 1782 to February 1785 against the strengthening Kajar family. He is shown with a servant and a female servant in the clothing typical of this period. There is no evidence that he travelled to Baghdad; his father Muhammad Karim had taken Basra in 1776. It belongs to the series of historical and historicising portraits that were widespread from the end of the Safavid period, both as miniatures and as large-format oil paintings. Simultaneous album leaf, Iran, gouache colours, French inscription in the upper margin.