Library of Grand Vizier Koca Mehmet Ragıp Pasha, Ottoman statesman (1698–1763). Scholars in turbans reading books at low tables on carpets. Biblioteca del Gran Visir Raghib Pascha. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Modern o Story, Florence, 1842. Copied from Ignace Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Tableau General de l’Empire Othoman, Paris, 1790.

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