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Illustration of Ottoman Costume from:

Les Anciens Costumes De l'Empire Ottoman Depuis L'Origine De La Monarchie Jusqu'A La Reforme du Sultan Mahmoud Recueillis, par S. Ex. Le Muchir Arif Pacha. (1863)

'The Old Costumes Of The Ottoman Empire From The Origin Of The Monarchy To The Reformation Of Sultan Mahmoud, Collected' by Mehmet Arif Pasha. (1863)

Plate 3, Le Sadrazam - Grand Vezir, [1863]

EXÉCUTEUR DES HAUTES ŒUVRES	EXÉCUTEUR EN CHEF DES HAUTES ŒUVRES	GRAND VIZIR	LIEUTENANT DES PORTES DU PALAIS	OFFICIER D'ORDCE EN CHEF

The french captions are difficult to read, see a high contrast image of the 16 french captions.

Arif Pacha
RA Collection: Book

Record number: 05/1330
Author: Arif Pacha
Variant Title: Medjmouaï teçavir
Imprint: Imprimé En Couleur Par Lemercier,, Paris. Prix 40 Fs. en noir Prix 80 Fs. en couleurs.: [1863]
Physical Description: [2], 47, [1] p., frontis. (port.), 16 pl.; 562 mm.
Contents: [T.p., frontis. (port.)] - Biographie De L'Auteur [to 1863] - Préface Traduite Du Texte Turc - Origine De L'Empire Ottoman - [Plates].
Responsibility Note: The frontispiece portrait of Arif Pacha is signed in the plate, 'Julien.M. Lith.' The numbered plates are all signed in the plate 'AS' (or 'AD'?), apart from pl. 5, which is signed 'AP' and pl. 3, and 10, which are unsigned.

The frontispiece and each numbered plate carry the imprint of Lemercier.
Summary Note: No publication-date is given on the title-page. In the Préface the author states, 'J'ai entrepris, l'an 1279 ... (1863 ...) la publication des Volumes I, II et III, en donnant pour titre à mon livre: Medjmouaï teçavir (collection de costumes) ... L'ouvrage complet se composera de douze volumes ...'. Lipperheide states that no more were published. According to Colas, the work was also published in Turkish.

The text, 'Origine De L'Empire Ottoman', is a brief chronological description of the costumes shown in the plates, where they are assigned numbers keying them to this survey. Each plate is captioned in Turkish and French. They show public officers of the Turkish state, before the suppression of the Janissaries in 1826 by Sultan Mahmud II.
Provenance: Purchased for RA Library in 1880 (see RA Annual Report for 1880, p. 42).
Source: Royal Academy, London