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Illustrations of Ottomans circa 1790 in

Costumes Turcs
Vol. I Folio 100. Tulumbacı


Tulumbachi, Jannissaire qui va pour éteindre le feu
Painting (watercolour). Folio 100 from an album showing Turkish costume. Tulumbacı, a member of the Janissary fire brigade carrying an axe and wearing a red singlet, a broad yellow kuşak with four folds, blue knee breeches and bare legs. He has a large white turban wound in wide folds round a square grey cap.

Compare:

128 Soulombadgi : pompier pour les incendies
firefighter
in: Monnier's album: Costumes Orientaux, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ms 65


British Museum. Registration number: 1974,0617,0.12.1.100
Previously owned by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez

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