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Illustrations of Ottomans circa 1790 in

Costumes Turcs
Kalyoncu, a sailor


Image source: Osmanlı kıyafet albümleri (1770-1810) by Nurdan Küçükhasköylü
Galongi.

Painting (watercolour). Folio 110 from an album showing Turkish costume. Kalyoncu, a sailor. Wearing a silver (lamellar armour?) tunic with metal yokes on the shoulders and two pistols tucked into his kuşak. Wide blue şalvar, red jacket with long cuffs and a flat round brown hat.

Compare:

13 [Galiongee], officier de marine
Kalyonçi, naval officer
in: Dessins originaux de costumes turcs, BnF 4-OD-23


British Museum. Registration number: 1974,0617,0.12.1.110
Previously owned by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez

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