Selictar Aga or Sword Bearer to the Grand Signior or Sultan

Selictar Aga or Sword Bearer to the Grand Signior or Sultan. The sabre bearer wears a tall headdress, long crimson robe embroidered with gold, yellow slippers. He is also commander of a corps of cavalry called Selictars. 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

Georgian Era Grand Signior Military Uniform Octavian Dalvimart Ottoman Empire Regency Era Thomas Mlean Troupe William Alexander

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