Book | The Costume of Turkey

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[DALVIMART, Octavien]. The Costume of Turkey. London: by T. Bensley for William Miller, 1802 [watermarked 1796]. 2° (360 x 259mm). 

Title in French and English, hand-coloured stipple-engraved vignette on English title, text in English and French, 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates by Dadley and William Poole after Dalimvart. This work has text based on various sources (d'Ohsson, Dallaway, Tott, etc.). According to the preface, Dalvimart travelled in Turkey in about 1798 and made drawings on the spot. He was certainly in Athens in 1797.

"Little is known about Octavien Dalvimart, besides the facts that he worked in Britain as painter and engraver, and that he was living in Paris in 1803. According to the prologue to this edition, he travelled during four years (starting in 1796), always drew from nature, and was in Athens in 1797. This elegant work was first published in 1802, and again in 1818 and 1820. It includes sixty drawings of human types from the Ottoman empire. The explanatory texts, in English and French, are based on extracts from works by B. De Tott, J. Dallaway, G.A. Olivier, M. Montague, J. Pitton de Tournefort, Μ. d’Ohsson and others. Dalvimart's drawings have been used in similar albums and illustrated other travel accounts. Human types are precisely drawn and handsomely depicted in very real colours. " Ioli Vingopoulou 

 Costume of Turkey - Osmanli Kostümleri (Turkish) Paperback – 2012 by Octavien Dalvimart (Author), Emre Yalcin Ed. (Author)

Odalisque of the Sultan's Harem.