Illustrations of Ottomans circa 1790 in

Costumes Turcs
Vol. I Folio 18. İç Ağa

Image source: Osmanlı kıyafet albümleri (1770-1810) by Nurdan Küçükhasköylü
Itsch-Aga de première sorte.

Painting (watercolour). Folio 18 from an album showing Turkish costume. İç Ağa, officer of the Imperial Interior Service (Enderun-i Hümayün). He is wearing the 'love-locks' associated with the Zülüflü ranks and the tall thimble-shaped cap (külâh-i peyk) of the peyks. White robe with horizontal gold stripes.

Compare: 36 Khas odalu : un des quarante pages de la chambre particulière du grand seigneur, le sultan one of the forty pages of the private chamber of the great lord, the sultan in: Monnier's album: Costumes Orientaux, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ms 65

British Museum. Registration number: 1974,0617,0.12.1.18
Previously owned by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez

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