Female dancer of Constantinople

Female dancer of Constantinople. She wears a veil, loose clothes and finger cymbals. The dancing girls were usually slaves or the wives of Mahometan musicians. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Octavian Dalvimart from William Alexander's translation of Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Thomas M'Lean, London, 1814

Castanets Enslaved Georgian Era Harem Octavian Dalvimart Ottoman Empire Regency Era Seraglio Skirts Thomas Mlean William Alexander

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