Turkish man in Constantinople wearing pelise or pelisse coat. The coat is trimmed with fur of rabbit, lamb, squirrel or fox, and ermine, martin or sable for rich men. 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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