Find the perfect fit with Amazon Prime. Try Before You Buy.


Shop Amazon - Create an Amazon Baby Registry



Illustrations of Ottomans circa 1790 in

Costumes Turcs
Vol. I Folio 129. Sarıca, a class of irregular militia


Image source: Osmanlı kıyafet albümleri (1770-1810) by Nurdan Küçükhasköylü
Sirgli, soldat à cheval en barnaché de fer.
Painting (watercolour). Folio 129 from an album showing Turkish costume. Sarıca, a class of irregular militia. Cavalryman clothed in armour and wearing a short-sleeved chainmail hauberk and also leg protectors. Round helmet with curtains, nasal and plume-holder. Vambraces. Spear, Wide blue knee breeches.

British Museum. Registration number: 1974,0617,0.12.1.129
Previously owned by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez

Previous: Overseer cook of the cebecis    Next: Tatar
Back to Ottomans circa 1790 in Costumes Turcs the Diez Album








Free Web Hosting