Female dancer of Constantinople. She wears a veil, loose clothes and finger cymbals. The dancing girls were usually slaves or the wives of Mahometan musicians. 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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