Everything about Claes R Lamb 1622-1698 totally explained
Claes Rålamb (
May 8,
1622 –
March 14,
1698) was a
Swedish statesman. In
1660 he was appointed Governor of
Uppland County and in
1664 he served in the
Privy Council. Between
1673 and
1678, he served as the
Over-Governor of
Stockholm.
Claes Rålamb led a Swedish embassy to the
Ottoman Empire's
Sublime Porte.
The Rålamb Costume Book
The 'Rålamb Costume Book' is a small volume containing 121 miniatures in Indian ink with gouache and some gilding, displaying Turkish officials, occupations and folk types.
They were acquired in Constantinople in 1657-58 by Claes Rålamb who led a Swedish embassy to the Sublime Porte, and arrived in the Swedish Royal Library / Manuscript Department in
1886.
This volume is a variant of the so-called muraqqa-album type, which is rather common in libraries in Europe. They were probably manufactured for European visitors, as precursors of the
19th Century 'pittoresque' photos and the present-day folklore postcards.
The miniatures have strong connections with the 'Rålamb Procession Paintings', a series of 20 paintings depicting the Sultan's procession to Adrianople, which are now displayed in the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm. Rålamb witnessed this procession and described it at length in his diary. The paintings were executed to his order, probably by a European artist. The miniatures may well have served as models for the artist.
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