About the cover illustration

The figure on the cover of OpenShift in Action is captioned “Morning Habit of a Lady of the City of Pera in Natolia in 1568.” Pera was the name of a district on the European side of Istanbul, separated from the historic old city by the Golden Horn, an inlet of the Bosporus. The illustration is taken from Thomas Jefferys’ A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Ancient and Modern, published in London between 1757 and 1772. The title page states that these are hand-colored copperplate engravings, heightened with gum arabic. Thomas Jefferys (1719–1771) was called “Geographer to King George III.” He was an English cartographer who was the leading map supplier of his day. He engraved and printed maps for government and other official bodies and produced a wide range of commercial maps and atlases, especially of North America. His work as a mapmaker sparked an interest in local dress customs of the lands he surveyed and mapped; they are brilliantly displayed in this four-volume collection.