Illustrated Manuscript: ‘Costumi Turchi e Grechi fatti in Constantinopoli 1790’
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This album of costumes from Constantinople captures the diversity of people and costumes in this cosmopolitan city at the end of the 18th century. The painter, identified as Greek, both from the inscription and from the style, may have also been painting icons, as some of the modelling shows a green undertone. The album opens with a half-length portrait of Sultan Abdul Hamid I and is followed by 66 full length portraits of officials, soldiers, sailors, traders and ladies. They are identified by Italian inscriptions below each figure.
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