Interior of the palace of Shah Shujah Durrani, ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1803 to 1809 and 1839 until his death in 1842. This lithograph is taken from plate 3 of the book 'Afghaunistan' by Lieutenant James Rattray. This scene shows Shah Shujah in 1839 after his enthronement as Emir of Afghanistan in the Bala Hissar (fort) of Kabul. Rattray wrote: "The Shah was a man of great personal beauty, and so well got up, that none could have guessed his age." He continued: "the wild grandeur of the whole pageantry baffles description."











