Arif Pasha, Ottoman Court Costumes, Plate 7, 1863

Plate 7 from Les Costumes de la Cour Ottomane, Arif Pasha's monumental 1863 record of Ottoman ceremonial dress, printed in Paris by Lemercier. This sheet shows a formal judicial and religious assembly, the senior legal and clerical officials of the Ottoman court, each identified on the plate in Ottoman Turkish, French, and modern Turkish.

The five figures, left to right, are the Kazasker Kâtibi (summons official to the Chief Justice), the Mekke Kadısı (Judge of Mecca), the Rumeli Kazaskeri (Chief Justice of Rumelia), the Nakibü'l-eşraf (Chief of the Corps of Descendants of the Prophet), and the İstanbul Kadısı (Judge of Constantinople).

Arif Pasha (1808–1865) compiled the series during the Tanzimat reform era (1839–1876), when the Ottoman administration was undergoing wholesale reorganization. The plates were both aesthetic achievements of Orientalist chromolithography and documentary tools for European diplomatic audiences. The printing is true multi-stone chromolithography, successive layers of oil-based color drawn on separate stones, not stencil or hand-coloring, with the close registration and saturated color characteristic of Lemercier's finest work.