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Illustrations of Ottomans circa 1790 in
Costumes Turcs
Kalkanlı, a man bearing a shield
Image source: Osmanlı kıyafet albümleri (1770-1810) by Nurdan Küçükhasköylü
Kalkanlé, espèce de soldat d'Arabie.
Painting (watercolour). Folio 131 from an album showing Turkish costume. Kalkanlı, a man bearing a shield. Dark-skinned man wearing a scarlet jerkin, a green kuşak with two pistols in it, wide blue knee breeches. His chest, arms and legs are bare. He has an arab type turban with red and blue stripes and has a shield and sword.
British Museum. Registration number: 1974,0617,0.12.1.131
Previously owned by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez
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