Selictar Aga or Sword Bearer to the Grand Signior or Sultan. The sabre bearer wears a tall headdress, long crimson robe embroidered with gold, yellow slippers. He is also commander of a corps of cavalry called Selictars. 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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