See also: Haydn Williams, 'Additional printed sources for Ligozzi's series of figures of the Ottoman Empire' (Master Drawings, volume 51, number 2, Summer 2013, pp. 195-220); See also: Metin And, Istanbul in the 16th century: the city, the palace, daily life (Istanbul, 1994).

These splendid costume paintings, by an unidentified talented artist, who may have been a member of the entourage of a German ambassador to the Porte. Great attention to both accuracy and details is shown, and, according to the Blackmer Catalogue, these may be related to another suite of similar drawings in the Gennadius Library (A896 B), dated to about 1573. There is also some resemblance in style and presentation to certain of the costume illustrations in Nicolas de Nicolay's Navigations (1568, and later edition🦩s). Although Nicolay travelled in the Levant in the 1550s and is thought to have drawn his costume subjects from life, some doubt has been cast on this view, and it is now generally thought that he drew his subjects from the work of other artists and illustrat🌳ors.

The subjects in this collection are captioned: Der Griechen Patriarch (the Greek Patriarch); Der Türckisch Keiyser (the Turkish Sultan); Der Türckisch Babst (the Sheik el-Islam); Türckisch weiber wie sie pflegen auf der gassen zu gehen (Turkish woman as they dress in the street); Also sezen die Türckischen weiber (seated Turkish woman); Ein Epirotische frau wie sie in Iren Heusern zu Galata pflegen zu gehen (a woman of Epirus in street dress going to her house in Galata); Ein Griegische frau (a Greek woman); and Ein Armenerinn (an Armenian woman).