The oriental album : twenty illustrations, in oil colors, of the people and scenery of Turkey, with an explanatory and descriptive text / by Rev. Henry J. Van Lennep, D.D. ...
Published / Created:
New York : Anson D. F. Randolph, 683 Broadway, 1862.
Physical Description:
48 pages, [20] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 46 x 36 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio A 2016 43Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
With an added lithographed title page.Chromolithographs by Charles Parsons, after Van-Lennep. Printed by Endicott & Co., N.Y.BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original purple cloth, stamped in gold.BEIN 2016 Folio 85: Original cloth front cover pasted in. Inscription: Jack R. Crawford, Yale University.
Contents:
Turkish and Armenian ladies abroad -- A Turkish Effendi -- Armenian lady of Constantinople (at home) -- Turkish scribe -- Turkish lady of rank at home -- Turkish Cavass (police officer) -- Turkish woman (unveiled) -- Armenian piper -- Armenian ladies (at home) -- Armenian marriage procession -- Armenian bride -- Albanian guard -- Armenian peasant woman -- Baghdad merchant (travelling) -- Jewish marriage -- Jewish merchant-- Gypsy fortune telling -- Bandit chief -- Circassian warrior -- Druse girl.
Subject Terms:
Turkey -- Social life and customs. | Turkey -- Pictorial works. | Clothing and dress -- Turkey -- Pictorial works. | Ethnic costume -- Turkey. | Crawford, Jack Randall, 1878– -- Autograph.
Form/Genre:
Chromolithographs -- 1862. | Lithographs -- 1862.
Contributors:
Parsons, Charles, 1821–1910, lithographer. | Endicott & Co. (New York, N.Y.), printer of plates.