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Title(s):
Costumes of Constantinople.
Published/Created:
Turkey?, 19th century
Physical Description:
43 drawings : watercolor ; sheets approximately 34 x 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2015 14
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Notes:
Inscriptions appear varyingly in Italian or English.
Figures portrayed include a ladle-bearer, water-carrier, caviar and sherbet sellers, wrestlers, chief cook, Pasha, Vizier, musicians, keeper of the gardens and chief gardener, coffee bearers, turban bearer, Head of the Janissaries, etc.
Subject Terms:
Clothing and dress -- Turkey -- Pictorial works.
Costume -- Turkey -- Pictorial works.
Turkey -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Watercolors.
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