About the cover illustration

The caption for the illustration on the cover of ASP.NET Core in Action is “The Captain Pasha. Kapudan pasha, admiral of the Turkish navy.” The Kapudan Pasha was the highest military rank of the Ottoman Navy from 1567 until 1867 when the post was abolished and replaced with the Naval Minister. The illustration is taken from a collection of costumes of the Ottoman Empire published on January 1, 1802, by William Miller of Old Bond Street, London. The title page is missing from the collection and we have been unable to track it down to date. The book’s table of contents identifies the figures in both English and French, and each illustration bears the names of two artists who worked on it, both of whom would no doubt be surprised to find their art gracing the front cover of a computer programming book ... two hundred years later.