Ottoman Turks in a landscape with palm trees

Gender information of the object: 
Male
Color: 
Black and white
Author: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Type: 
wash drawing
Primary Material: 
Paper
3D object: 
3D object
Code: 
391
Translator: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description: 
Three Ottoman Turks are presented in a landscape with palm trees. They are peasants carrying goods for sell­ing – one of them holds a steelyard for weighing. They are dressed with the typical up­per class costume, namely a long robe (cüppe) over the entari, under which are seen pantaloons reaching down to the ankles, and flat leather shoes. A vo­luminous turban completes their attire. (sarik)
Bibliography: 

Ottoman Turks in a landscape with palm trees, Cyprus. Wash drawing by Namindiú, 1785 (Severis (ed.) 2007, 327). Namindiú, 1785 (Severis (ed.) 2007, 329).

References/Remarks: 
While touring Cyprus in 1785, the traveller Namindiú made two drawings depict male Cypriots Namindiú also noticed similarities in the appear¬ance of people of the ‘two nations’, and commented in his letters that ‘their dress has been so very mixed, by their habit and customs that the Greeks took a lot from the Turks and the Turks a lot from the Greeks’ (Severis (ed.) 2007, 298-99; see drawings on pp. 327, 329, 331, 333).