"Costumi Turchi e Grechi fatti in Constantinopoli 1790" | Album of original watercolours, 1790

Turkish and Greek costume

“Costumi Turchi e Grechi fatti in Constantinopoli 1790”, Constantinople, 1790

Folio (320 x 190mm.), manuscript title, 67 original watercolour, comprising a half length portrait of Sultan Abdul Hamid I and 66 full-length portraits of officials, soldiers, sailors, traders, ladies, etc., contemporary manuscript captions in an Italian hand, contemporary tree calf, a few captions cropped, rebacked retaining original spine

Folio (320 x 190mm.), manuscript title, 67 original watercolour, comprising a half length portrait of Sultan Abdul Hamid I and 66 full-length portaits of officials, soldiers, sailors, traders, ladies, etc., contemporary manuscript captions in an Italian hand, contemporary tree calf, a few captions cropped, rebacked retaining original spine

A note in pencil on the title reads “Done by a Greek, self taught”.