Spahi or cavalry man from the Asiatic provinces of the Ottoman Empire. His uniform comprises tall turban, jacket, shirt, girdle, loose pants, red boots, armed with musket, dagger, pistol and whip. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Octavian Dalvimart from William Alexander’s translation of Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Thomas M’Lean, London, 1814.

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