Man from Mardin, southeast Turkey, in embroidered scarf, fur-lined cape, red boots. Handcoloured woodcut by Vangauberche from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.
Man from Mardin, southeast Turkey, in embroidered scarf, fur-lined cape, red boots. Handcoloured woodcut by Vangauberche from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.