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Illustrations of Ottomans circa 1790 in

Costumes Turcs
Deveci

Image source: Osmanlı kıyafet albümleri (1770-1810) by Nurdan Küçükhasköylü
Dovadgi, Serviteur de l'Aga des Jannissaires.

Painting (watercolour). Folio 82 from an album showing Turkish costume. Deveci (deveciler = name of the first five regiments of the Janissaries). Wearing a dark blue kaftan and a white cap (kuka) which tapers to a rounded end and had a broad green brim.

Compare: 121 Kurdgi : musulman des provinces de l'Empire, non né à Constantinople Muslim from the provinces of the Empire, not born in Constantinople in: Monnier's album: Costumes Orientaux, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ms 65

British Museum. Registration number: 1974,0617,0.12.1.82
Previously owned by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez

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