janissaries and jellyfish

Everything at all related to both Ottomans and animals. Brought to you by Elisha and Marjorie.

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Ottoman miniature from the Zubdat Al- Tawarikh: Jonah and the fish, Jeremiah in wilderness, Uzeyr awakened after the destruction of Jerusalem.

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Mehmed Said in Stockholm as ambassador in 1733, by Georg Engelhard Schröder.

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Ottoman Calligraphy In Shape Of A Bird. C. 1870.

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The tent was captured at Vienna in 1683 during the defeat of the Turkish army. In 1729 the tent was taken to Saxony. The tent underwent  restoration from 1991 until 1999. It was recently on display in Wawel Royak Castle in Krakow.

Source here 

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"At the Mosque Door" (1891), Osman Hamdi (here)

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"Healing a horse suffering from colic with old wine and olive oil.Ottoman copy of a Turkish work on the training and care of warhorses (Tuhfat ül-farisin fi ahval-i huyul il-mucahidin) by Ahmed ‘Ata Tayyarzade (died 1294). Via Walters Art Gallery" (HERE). See older post on OA on healing horses HERE 

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Information on Turkish shepherd dogs written in Ottoman Turkish. (here)

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Khusrau Hunting: Page from a manuscript of the Khusrau and Shirin of Hatifi, dated 1498; Ottoman Turkey (probably Istanbul). (here)

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Lioness attacking an antelope--early 16th century. (here)

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19th century Ottoman elephant (porcelain base from China) (here)

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Miniatures from an Ottoman manuscript. Sorry the file is so small! (here)

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An example of zoomorphic calligraphy in Ottoman art (here)

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Animals of Hindustan monkeys called bandar that can be taught to do tricks, from Illuminated manuscript Baburnama (Memoirs of Babur), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.596, fol. 27b

Written in Chaghatay Turkish and later translated into Persian. Here 

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Lions at the Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul. (here and here)

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Album leaf, 17th century. Ottoman. Turkey. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Louis V. Bell Fund, 1967 (67.266.7.8r) (here)

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"Man on a Donkey", early 20th century Turkey. (here)

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One aspect of Istanbul life that evidently hasn't changed is the stereotyping of certain districts of the city. In this final image, we encounter some regional stereotyping in a cartoon drawn by the Armenian Nishan Berberyan, one of Hayal's main cartoonists, a pioneer of Ottoman satire, and a publisher and translator in his own right. In this cartoon, entitled İstanbul'un bazı metâ'yı (Some of the wares of Istanbul), each item represents a neighbourhood in and around Istanbul, and in some cases embodies that neighbourhood's supposed characteristics. (here)