Caption:
Turbe or tomb of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari in the Eyup Sultan Mosque, Istanbul. The tomb is open day and night and lit with two large torches and a flagpole wrapped in green cloth. Walls covered in Isnik tiles. Turbe dEyub. Chapelle sepulchrale dEyub. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Modern o Story, Florence, 1842. Copied from Ignace Mouradgea dOhssons Tableau General de lEmpire Othoman, Paris, 1790.