AN ALBUM OF WATERCOLOURS OF TURKS
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AN ALBUM OF WATERCOLOURS OF TURKS

FOR THE TOURIST MARKET, CIRCA EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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AN ALBUM OF WATERCOLOURS OF TURKS
For the tourist market, circa early 19th century
Gouache on paper, containing forty-four miniatures, most representing a single figure with ladies and gentlemen of the court, janissaries, dervishes, ethnic groups in their costumes, artisans, others of the royal barge, a carriage for ladies and the horse bearing the Imperial palanquin to Mecca, some inscribed in Italian in pencil, in green morocco binding inscribed costumi in gold
Folio 7¼ x 5in. (18.2 x 13cm.)
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