Costumes of Turkey including high ranking courtiers: sultan, sultana, odalisque or chambermaid, Chief Black Eunuch (Kislar Aga), and an officer of the sultan's court or harem guard, Kapidschi Baschi. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.

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Size: 4153px × 6850px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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