Reis Effendi, Reis ul-Kuttab, head clerk, Foreign Minister, Secretary of State to the Ottoman Empire. In giant turban, pelisse coat trimmed with fur, yellow boots. 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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