Janissaries Ottoman Empire. Turkish Elite Infantry.
Janissaries Ottoman Empire.
Category: 19th Century
Ottoman Empire Public Office 1838
Ottoman Empire Public Office in Constantinople Title: Bureau public (Kàlem ou). Published: L’Univers Pittoresque, Paris 1838.
Egypt. A Girl performing on the Tarabuka.
Goblet drums (also tarabuka) are single-sheet drums widely used in Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.
Sais (A Groom of Stable) in 1850. Egyptian costume.
Sais (Palefrenier, A Groom of Stable) from Egypt.
Traditional Switzerland costumes of Canton Unterwald and Canton Bern in 1815.
Traditional Switzerland costumes Canton Unterwald and Canton Bern in 1815. Canton Bern, farmer’s wife Canton Unterwald, Woman at the butter churn Gallery: Swiss national costumes.
Peasant woman of Solothurn, Switzerland.
Woman in the costume of Solothurn, Switzerland. According to an illustration by Paul Gavarni.
Sufi Dervishes Dance. Ottoman Empire.
Sufi Dervishes Dance. Ottoman Empire. Whirling Dervishes Dance of the Mevlevi order. Title: Danse des Derwichs Mewlewis Published: L’Univers Pittoresque, Paris 1838.
An old woman tells sleepy stories. Mont Cenis. Nursing 1821.
Nursing at Mont Cenis. Infancy is ever the same in all countries. A child puts on the spectacles of age, an old woman tells sleepy stories.
Woman with wide-brimmed hat. Peoples of Mont Cenis in 1821.
The females of Mount Cenis are almost mattressed round, and their broad brims form a constant umbrella.
French Postillion wearing sçavans, nankeen trousers and leather hat.
The mixture of self-conceit, noise, tawdry, and shifts, forming his composition, constitute a true and complete emblem of his countrymen’s natural accomplishments and qualities.