Turcos
A hand-coloured 1870 German broadsheet titled Turcos, showing French Tirailleurs Algériens uniforms of the 1842-1914 period, presented as a plate for a general public audience. The picture is a row of standing figures in blue jackets, red sashes, baggy trousers and white turbans, with a drummer at left, a French officer in a blue coat and red trousers, and a flag bearer, all rendered in flat, saturated colour with crisp outlines. A designer could draw on its clear, boldly coloured military costume silhouettes and its tidy, catalogue-style presentation of uniform detail.
