Page of the Grand Signior or Sultan. They work in the Seraglio or harem, and are schooled in Persian, Turkish and Arabic. Some, the Adjem-Oglan, are the children of Christian slaves. 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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