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An album of eighteen watercolours of high-ranking officials and courtiers and other figures
Ottoman Turkey, Constantinople, 18th/early 19th Century

Islamic and Indian Art

10 April 2008, 14:30 BST

London, New Bond Street

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An album of eighteen watercolours of high-ranking officials and courtiers and other figures
Ottoman Turkey, Constantinople, 18th/early 19th Century

watercolour on paper laid down on board, inner margins ruled in grey ink, English identifying inscription written in ink below each portrait, embossed green morocco, detached, worn
images 270 x 190 mm.; album 360 x 270 mm.

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The list of portraits is as follows:

1. The Grand Seigneur.
2. Grand Vizier.
3. Secretary to the Grand Vizier.
4. Mufti, or Supreme Judge.
5. Reis Effendi, or Secretary of State.
6. Hospodar, or Prince of Wallachia.
7. Janissary.
8. Sword-bearer.
9. Royal Game-Keeper.
10. Officer who receives the firman for decapitation.
11. Officer in the Artillery Corps.
12. Musician of the Seraglio.
13. Kislar Aga, Chief of the Eunuchs.
14. Ink Merchant.
15. The Sultana in her wedding garment.
16. One of the Seven Favourites of the Seraglio.
17. Slave of the Seraglio.
18. A Turkish lady in a walking dress.

Albums depicting costumes were produced in Constantinople for visiting embassies and travellers throughout the 18th Century. For a comparative example from a collection dated to circa 1760, see P. Johnstone, Turkish Embroidery, London 1985, p. 13; and for several examples dated to the early to mid-19th Century, see Turkische Kunst und Kultur aus osmanischer Zeit, Frankfurt 1985, pp 266-71.

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An album of eighteen watercolours of high-ranking officials and courtiers and other figures
Ottoman Turkey, Constantinople, 18th/early 19th Century

An album of eighteen watercolours of high-ranking officials and courtiers and other figures
Ottoman Turkey, Constantinople, 18th/early 19th Century