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Illustrations of Ottomans circa 1790 in

Costumes Turcs
Vol. II Folio 114. Ciğerci


Chierdgi, qui portent des poumons pour les chats.
Painting (watercolour). Folio 114 from an album showing Turkish costume. Ciğerci, cats-meat man, a seller of liver and lungs. Carrying a vertical pole on his shoulders with unsavoury liver, lights and kidneys fastened to it. Wearing grey astrakhan cap, white trousers, brown stockings, black slippers, brown jacket, white blouse open, knife in his brown girdle.

British Museum. Registration number: 1974,0617,0.12.2.114
Previously owned by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez

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