PLATE XVI.
A TURKISH WOMAN
Ï IN THE ■ DRESS,ï#Ö » ':A T :.IÓ .W ® aN ’IlN Ö P l£:. v;.':
I n plate the fourth there was given a portrait of a Turkish'female
of one Of the provinces ; the one hère represented is that of a female
as she appears in the streets of Constantinople. It is différent from
theforiner.
S 'Theferedjè is universally in that , city made of greén cloth or
other staff, with its long square cape quilted and covered with
'green silk.
- The beauty of the Turkish, bat »ore particularly of tfae'Cirfcas-
sian or women is proverbial; bat in most of them itmntë
be ebnftned to the faeei Prom the mode of sitrtiag.on, their sofas
they stoop verymucb, and walk aukwardly; and the immoderate
use of the warm, or even hot, bath, with continued indolence, produces
snehTelaxatron, as to spoil a form, which nature made equal,
to their faces, Tbelatterare remarkable for symmetry and complexion.
Their nose isSrecian, and their ' eyes, though generally
small, and either- black or' dark bine, are brilliant and piercing!
The custom too of-drawing a small - line! above and beneath the
eyfiTlash; adds to the effect: - They «tain, A®, nails both ttf their
Steers and feet of a bright rose colour. Hence probably . arose
Homer's epithet of T&e rosy-fingered' tQorn,”' "