Costumes of Turkey, including a man with tobacco pipe and woman from Smyrna, Armenian men and women, and a woman from the island of Chios. Grousch or Turkish piastre coins. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.


Size: 4309px × 6819px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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