Male Negro in full-length green (shot gold) robe, British School

An image of Male Negro in full-length green (shot gold) robe, fur trimmed, over coloured 'skirt' and pink shirt with blue and white cummerbund, a gold trimmed conical 'hat' Kizlar Aga: Chief Black Eunuch. Unknown draughtsman, British. Watercolour and bodycolour with some gold on chain paper, height 309 mm, width 204 mm, after 1803. Production Note: re-attrib. to Turkey?

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Male Negro in full-length green (shot gold) robe, fur trimmed, over coloured 'skirt' and pink shirt with blue and white cummerbund, a gold trimmed conical 'hat' Kizlar Aga: Chief Black Eunuch. Unknown draughtsman, British. Watercolour and bodycolour with some gold on chain paper, height 309 mm, width 204 mm, after 1803. Production Note: re-attrib. to Turkey?

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Accession Number: PD.995-1975
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/9.5
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 684 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 515.60kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 95/10

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19th Century black bodycolour British School clothes clothing conical hat costume cummerbund drawing eunuch fashion figure studies figures Fitz_PDP full length fur collar fur lined fur trimmed furs green hats male pink pointed hat robes shoes study watercolour

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