Antique Hand-Coloured Stipple Engraving Ottoman selling Empire.

“Ast-chi, a Cook. Ast-chi Bashi, Head Cook of the Janissary Corps”. Antique Hand-Coloured Stipple Engraving on Nineteenth Century Marbled Paper. Illustration selling from Antoine Laurent Castellan's Book “Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire». Framed.
Castellan was born at Montpellier in 1772. After having studied landscape painting under Valenciennes, he visited Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland, and published several series of letters upon those parts, illustrated with views drawn and engraved by himself. His best-known work is the Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, published in 1812, and highly praised by Lord Byron.

Condition: Antique, 1800s
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