Mustapha III. Nat: d. 20 Dec. 1715. In Sol: evect: d. 29. Oct: 1757.
J.E. Nilson fec: et excud; A.V. C.P.S.C.M.
[Augsburg, c.1760.]
Engraving with very large margins. 230 x 165mm (9 x 6½").
Mustafa III (1717-74), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757. He sought to modernise the Empire but was not strong enough to overcome the reactionary Janissaries and imams. However, he did manage to get foreign advisers to reform the infantry and artillery, and ordered the founding of scientific academies. Knowing the weakness of the army he avoided war, allowing Russia to annex the Crimea. Portrait in elaborate border with three figures responding to the image.
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Omer. Ebu'Bekir. Fig.4. Fig. 3.
J.B. Hilaire, Del. Ingouf junior, Sculp.
[n.d. c.1785.]
Etching and engraving, paper watermarked. 201 x 272mm. 8 x 10¾".
Two Turkish men, turned towards each other, seated on carpet on each side of a small table on which sits a book; the man on the left holds a small book and seems to be conversing with his companion, who makes argumentative gestures. Probably Abu Bakr (573-634), a senior companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who ruled over the Rashidun Caliphate from 632 to 634 CE when he became the first Muslim Caliph following the death of Muhammad; and Umar bin Khattab (581-644), the leading companion and adviser to Islamic prophet Muhammad who later became the second Muslim Caliph after Muhammad's death. From Ohsson's 'Tableau général de l'empire Ottoman' (Paris, 1787-1820).
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Orchanes. Second King of the Turks. A.o 1328.
[n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving with large margins. Plate 152 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). Some rubbing and scuffing.
Orham (1281-1362), second bey of the Ottoman Empire from 1326 to 1362. He spent the early stages of his reign focused on conquering most of north-western Anatolia, which was under Byzantine rule.
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Osman I Stifter des osmanischen Reiches im Jahre 1300.
[after C. Dubosc]
[German, c.1700.]
Engraving with large margins. 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Some foxing; attached to backing sheet.
Osman I (1258-1326), the founder of the dynasty that established and ruled the Ottoman Empire. The portrait is taken from a Turkish-school painting. Published in Demetrius Cantemir's 'History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire'.
[Ref: 29848] £75.00
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Ghazi, Sultan-Osman.
H. Lalaisse del. Lamaire direxit. Pigeot Sc.
[n.d., c.1847.]
Steel engraving. 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Some foxing.
Osman I (1258-1326), the founder of the dynasty that established and ruled the Ottoman Empire, published in a volume of 'L'Univers'.
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Othoman. First King of The Turks. A.o 1300.
[n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving with large margins. Plate 146 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾"). Some foxing.
Osman I (1258-1326), nicknamed 'Kara', for his bravery, leader of the Ottoman Turks, and founder of the dynasty that established and ruled the Ottoman Empire.
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Soltan Hotomannus Turkarum Imperator.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. 150 x 110mm (6 x 4½") plus woodcut decorative printed border. Glued to backing sheet at corners.
Osman II (1604-22), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618, aged 14. In 1621 he led the Ottoman army into Poland, but after losing the Battle of Khotyn he was forced to withdraw. He blamed his defeat on the Janissairies: his attempts to curtail their power led to a revolt in which Osman was strangled with a bowstring.
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Soltan Hotomannus Turcarum Imperator. Praedatur pullos pedibusqs eviscerat uncis...Et scevo tutas solus ab hoste sacis.
[Lucas Kilian ?]
[n.d. c.1622.]
Engraving. Plate 203 x 126mm (8 x 5"). Cut to platemark.
Sultan Osman II (1604-1622), Sultan of the Ottoman empire from 1618 until his death. He was also known as a poet and mastered many languages. He secured the empire's eastern border by signing a peace treaty with Safavid Iran. He personally led the Ottoman invasion of Poland during the Moldovian Magnate Wars.
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Osman II sechbehenter Kaiser der Türken im Jahre 1618.
[German, c.1700.]
Engraving with very large margins. 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Glued to backing sheet.
Osman II (1604-22), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618, aged 14. In 1621 he led the Ottoman army into Poland, but after losing the Battle of Khotyn he was forced to withdraw. He blamed his defeat on the Janissairies: his attempts to curtail their power led to a revolt in which Osman was strangled with a bowstring. The portrait is taken from a Turkish-school painting. Published in Demetrius Cantemir's 'History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire'.
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La Grande Sultane.
I.Gole fe: et: ex: Amstelodami. Cum Privil: Ord: Holl: et West-frisiæ.
[n.d., c.1690.]
Mezzotint. 245 x 180mm. Small worm hole, old tape in left margin.
[Ref: 2760] £220.00
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The Turkish Empire.
P. Kærius Cælavit.
[London, William Humble, c.1646.]
Engraved map with an English text on verso. Coloured. 85 x 125mm, 3¼ x 5". Repair in margin, slight time staining.
Map of the Turkish Empire, showing Italy, the Black Sea, a mis-shapen Caspian, Arabia, Egypt and eastern Libya. It was engraved by Pieter van den Keere and used in the minature version of John Speed's atlas, earning the map the nickname of 'miniature Speed'.
[Ref: 25966] £120.00
Map of the Ottoman Empire The Black Sea and the Frontiers of Russia and Persia by James Wyld. Geographer to the Queen & H.R.H. Prince Albert. Charing Cross East. London.
London. Published by Ja.s Wyld, Geographer to the Queen & H.R.H. Prince Albert, Charing Cross East, (next door to the Post Office) & 2 Royal Exchange. November 9t. 1853.
Hand-coloured engraving. 520 x 692mm. 20½ x 27¼". Folded.
A map of the Ottoman Empire to include parts of Southern Russia, Asia and Europe. The dates seen in Russia refer to the year the Russians acquired control of those areas. Also included are insets of the port of Odessa, the harbour of Sebastopol, the port of Batoum, the Dardanelles and Bosphorus. Published to illustrate the Russo-Turkish borders at the beginning of the Crimean War.
[Ref: 26903] £220.00
[Ottoman Sailor.] [Title in Arabic script.]
Lith. en couleur par Anatole et Bocquin. Imp. Lemercier & C.ie. r. de Seine 57 Paris.
[n.d., c.1860].
Coloured lithograph with very large margins. 365 x 475mm (14¼ x 18¾").
A full length portrait of an Ottoman sailor, the sails of a ship can be seen in the background of the image.
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[Ottoman Soldier.] [Title in Arabic script.]
Lith. en couleur par Anatole et Bocquin. Imp. Lemercier & C.ie. r. de Seine 57 Paris.
Coloured lithograph with very large margins. Sheet: 365 x 475mm (14¼ x 18¼").
Full lenth portrait of an Ottoman soldier in an exterior setting.
[Ref: 33257] £140.00
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L'union fait la force. Régénération de L'Empire Ottoman. Verdu au profit de l' emancipation 1 Franc.
Lith. Thierry Freres, Cité Bergere, 1, A Paris. [n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph, very scarce & interesting. Sheet size: 550 x 355m. (21½ x 14"). Tear into text on right.
A scene in which five figures are seen holding a flag, topped with an Ottoman symbol, inscribed with 'Droit Egaux', translated as 'Equal Rights'. The figures are standing by a river, with a landscape of buildings in the background. Underneath the title is a list of four principles for the state to abide by. Titles in five different languages inscribed underneath image.
[Ref: 30005] £450.00
[A Woman from the Levant.]
[n.d., c.1820?]
Watercolour. Sheet: 170 x 120mm (6¾ x 4¾''). Creasing.
A portrait of a young woman in the costume of the Ottoman Empire.
[Ref: 48065] £95.00
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[Turkish military officer?]
N.d. gem. in Constantinopel v. H. Kretschmer Lith. v. F. Jentzen
Druck. v. L. Zöllner in Berlin. Verlag u. Eigenthum d.C.G. Lüderitz'schen Kunst Verlagshandlung in Berlin
Rare lithograph, printed area 38 x 28cm. 15 x 11". Repaired tears in margins.
After Hermann Kretschmer (1811 Anklam- 1890 Berlin), and artist 'conspicuous for his choice of Oriental subjects'. Michael Bryan, 'Bryan's Dictionary of Painters'.
[Ref: 14665] £140.00
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[An Ottoman governor and the Patriarch of Babylon.]
[Drawn and lithographed by Jules Laurens.]
[Published by Pierre-Bertrand, Paris, n.d., c.1859.]
Lithograph, proof before letters, image 430 x 322mm.
Joseph Auguste Jules Laurens travelled with the geographer Xavier Hommaire de Hell on a scientific journey to Turkey and Persia, making over a thousand drawings of the sites, costumes and people he encountered. After Hommaire died of cholera in 1848 Laurens sent his notes back to his widow in Paris who completed a full account of their travels, 'Voyage en Turquie et en Perse, exe´cute´ par ordre du Gouvernement Francais pendant les anne´es 1846, 1847 et 1848', containing many lithographs by Laurens.
[Ref: 7706] £230.00
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One of the Grand Signior's Foot Guards. Engrav'd from the Collection of the Rt. Honble. Lord Baltimore.
Franco. Smith pinx. W. Byrne sculp.
Publd. accg. to Act of Parlt. Jany. 30, 1769.
Engraving, 265 x 195mm. 10½ x 7¾". Trimmed to plate. Stain spots.
A guard of the Turkish Sultan, armed with bow and arrows. After Francis Smith (fl.1760s) painter, apparently born in Naples, where he painted topographical views for the tourist trade. He accompanied Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731 - 1771, named in inscription) to the Levant 1763-4, then exhibited in London 1768-73. From a series of Ottoman costume plates and portraits, numbered 'Tav. XV' upper right. for a better impression of this print see ref. 30115
[Ref: 11695] £140.00
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[Ottoman warrior on horseback with sword brandished.]
J.s Whitefoord [below image]. Drawn & lith. by James Whitefoord at Addiscombe 15th Dec. 1825 [ms]
Lithograph, very rare; sheet 260x 210mm (10¼ x 8¼"). Glued to album sheet with another print verso.
Amateur lithograph by a military officer, probably based on his own experiences of service in Asia. For another lithograph by Whitefoord showing the 'attack of a Burmese stockade' see ref. 6598.
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[Ottomans] Sultanne.
P. Duflos aquaforti.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos le jeune. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 276 x 165mm.
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Mahee Contrafactur des Tuchishen Kansers Ibrahims Sohn und der Sultanin seiner Mutter welches in dem Seetzeffen von denen Maltese Ritterm gesangen und nach Malta gebracht worden. Hosmanus Imperatoris Ibrahim Filius.
[1707.]
Rare engraving. Sheet: 300 x 190mm (11¾ x 7½''). Trimmed, worm hole and staining.
The portrait of a young boy thought to be Ozman, the son of Ottoman Emperor Ibrahim I. An Ottoman convoy travelling from Constantinople was attacked in 1644 by the Knights Hospitaller of Malta, the ship was filled with pilgrims headed for Mecca. Historians have since disputed whether the boy captured was actually the son of Sultan Ibrahim I. From 'Theatrum Europeaum' 1707 by Johann Peter Lotichius.
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[Turk at prayer] Turc qui fait sa priere.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving, mint, platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with large margins.
Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis de Ferriol. After Jean-Baptiste van Mour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, remembered for his his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and the rule of Sultan Ahmed III.
[Ref: 46966] £190.00
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[Turkish Woman Reclining on the Sofa after a Bath.] Femme Turque qui repose usr le Sopha sortant du bain.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
A Turkish woman in a suggestive mode. Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47015] £330.00
Roxelane. O vous que Mars rend invincible, Voulez-vous être au rang des Dieux? Deffendez vous s'il est possible, D'être eslave de doux beaux yeux.
Dugoure inv. pinx. Le Beau sculp.
Se vend à Paris chez Basan et Poignant Mds. d’Estampes. Rue et Hôtel Serpente. [n.d. c.1790.]
A very fine copper engraving. Plate 255 x 178mm. 10 x 7".
Roxelane, Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Consort Hurrem Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (c.1505-1558), was the legal wife of the Suleyman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire. She was captured in the 1520s as a young woman by Crimean Tatars during one of their frequent raids of the region and was taken as a slave, probably the first to the Crimean city of Kaffa, and then onto Istanbul where she was selected for Suleyman's harem.
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Said Pacha Beglierbey de Roumely Ambassadeur extraordinaire de sa Haut.se vers Sa Majesté tres Chretienne. Puisse son nom vivant chez nos derniers Neveux...Etre egalement cher a deux Peuples heureux.
Presenté par son Excellence par son tres humble Serviteur Petit.
a Paris chez Petit rue S. Jacques a la Couronne d'Epines. 1742.
Engraving. Plate 151 x 106mm (6 x 4¼"). Rare.
Ottoman ambassador to France.
[Ref: 29820] £95.00
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L'Imam. Schafiy. L'Imam Azam Ebu-Hanife. Fig. 9. Fig. 8.
[J.B. Hilaire, Del. Ingouf, junior, Sculp.]
[n.d. c.1785.]
Etching and engraving, paper watermarked. 203 x 266mm. 8 x 10½". Crease.
Two Turkish men sitting on a carpet with one reading to the other. From Ohsson's 'Tableau général de l'empire Ottoman' (Paris, 1787-1820).
[Ref: 25052] £90.00
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Perse. Le Sélam. The Selam.
Jules David litho. Imprimerie de Dauty.
Dauty, Editeur, 2, rue Vivienne, Paris; London: pub.d Ch. Tilt, 86, Fleet Street; New-York: Bailly Ward and Co. [n.d. c.1870.]
Lithograph. 248 x 178mm. 9¾ x 7". .
The Turkish 'Sélam'. The 'Sélam' was described by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as a way for a girl in a harem to communicate in secret with her lover on the outside. Objects would be wrapped in a handkerchief and sent from the woman to her lover and vice versa; the messages were supposedly derived from words that rhymed with the names of the objects.
[Ref: 20898] £110.00
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Sultan Selim Chan.
[Engraved by Theodore de Bry.]
[Frankfurt: de Bry, 1593.]
Engraving. Sheet 95 x 95mm (3¾ x 3¾). Trimmed losing ornamental border; glued to backing sheet.
Selim II (1524-1574), son of Suleiman the Magnificent known as 'Selim the Drunkard'. Among his few successess was the capture of Cyprus in 1571, but the destruction of the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto the same year has been pinpointed as the beginning of the slow deline of the Empire. Published in the 'Vitae et icones Sultanorum turcicorum'.
[Ref: 29843] £120.00
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Selym. II Othoman. XII Roy des Turcs. V Empereur Cree. A. Constantinoble en Septemb. 1566 et de son Aage. XLIII. A mon souverain Seigneur Le Duc de Lorraine.
[n.d., c.1650.]
Engraving. 125 x 90 (5 x 3½"). Narrow right edge.
Selim II (1524-1574), son of Suleiman the Magnificent known as 'Selim the Drunkard'. Among his few successess was the capture of Cyprus in 1571, but the destruction of the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto the same year has been pinpointed as the beginning of the slow deline of the Empire. This is a copy of the lifetime portrait published by Antonio Lafreri in Rome, 1566.
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Selimus Secundus Imperator Turcarum Decimusquintus. Selim de tweede van dien Name, de 15 Turcksche Kÿser,
[Amsterdam: Jan Cloppenburch, 1621.]
Engraving. 180 x 130mm (7 x 5¼"). Trimmed from larger sheet. Repaired tears; glued to backing sheet.
Selim II (1524-1574), son of Suleiman the Magnificent known as 'Selim the Drunkard'. Among his few successess was the capture of Cyprus in 1571, but the destruction of the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto the same year has been pinpointed as the beginning of the slow deline of the Empire. Engraved by Nicolaes de Clerck for a Dutch edition of Pierre Davity's 'Les estats, empires et principautez de monde'.
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Selim II eilster Kaiser der Türken im Jahre 1566.
[after C. duBosc]
[German, c.1700.]
Engraving. 195 x 120mm (7¾ x 4¾"). Glued to backing sheet.
Selim II (1524-1574), son of Suleiman the Magnificent known as 'Selim the Drunkard'. Among his few successess was the capture of Cyprus in 1571, but the destruction of the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto the same year has been pinpointed as the beginning of the slow deline of the Empire. The portrait is taken from a Turkish-school painting and was published in Demetrius Cantemir's 'History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire'.
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Selim der Dritte Türkischer Kaiser.
C. Schule sc. 1806.
Engraving with small margins. 190 x 140m (7½ x 5½"). Glued to backing sheet at top corners.
Selim III (1761-1808), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807. His attempts at reform ended when the Janissaries deposed and imprisoned him: when a rescuing army approached Constantinople Selim was stabbed, the only Ottoman sultan to die by the sword.
[Ref: 29869] £75.00
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Selim III. The Reigning Grand Seignor. Æ.t 31.
Pain.d by Duchateau 1792. Engra.d by Nutter 1798.
London Published, May 1st 1798 by J. White Fleet Street.
Stipple. Sheet 200 x 125mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed within plate.
Selim III (1761-1808), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807. His attempts at reform ended when the Janissaries deposed and imprisoned him: when a rescuing army approached Constantinople Selim was stabbed, the only Ottoman sultan to die by the sword. Jean-François Duchateau lived in Istanbul 1775-96 and painted many portraits of the Ottoman court. His oil of Selim III is now in the Topkapi Saray Museum.
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Sestos in Europa.
[n.d., c.1688.]
Coloured engraving. 295 x 355mm (11½ x 14"). Ink pagination top left. Very large margins.
A view of the fortress of Sestos, on the European bank of the Hellespont. From Olfert Dapper's 'Naukeurige Beschryving der Eilanden inde Archipel der Miidlantsche Zee'.
[Ref: 39159] £130.00
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[Turkish Woman Smoking on a Sofa.] Femme Turque qui fume sur le Sopha.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
A Turkish woman in a suggestive mode. Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47014] £330.00
Smyrna. No. 20, Sacred Cabinet.
W. Clark, lith, 202, High Holborn.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 205 x 265mm (8 x 10½'').
A view of the important port town of Smyrna (now Izmir) on the Aegean coast of Turkey.
[Ref: 49886] £80.00
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Soliman Musta-Féraga Envoyé en France Vers le Roy tres Chrestien, en L'année 1669, de la Part de Mehrmet Ive du Nom Empereur des Turcs.
[Engaraved by Nicolas De Larmessin?]
A Paris Chez P. Bertrand Rüe St Jacques à la Pome dOr Pres St Severin, Avec Privil du Roy.
Engraving with small margins. Sheet 235 x 170mm (9¼ x 6¾"). Mounted on album sheet at top.
Suleiman Aga (or Müteferrika Süleyman Aga), Ottoman ambassador to Louis XIV in 1669. Visiting Versailles, he refused to bow to Louis, who banned him the Palace. He is credited with making coffee fashionable in Paris.
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Soliman Musta-Féraga. Envoyé en France Vers le Roy tres Chrestien en L'annéé 1669, de la Part Mehemet Ive, du Nom Empereur des Turcs.
[n.d., c.1670.]
Engraving. Plate: 230 x 165 (9 x 6½"). Trimmed within plate on lower edge, tear in upper right corner.
A hald-length portrait in an oval of Müteferrika Süleyman Aga, embassador to the French court from the Ottoman Empire. During his visit to Versailles he wore only a simple wool coat and refused to bow to Louis XIV so was sent back to Paris, where he set up a fine house and entertained the fashionable ladies of Paris to coffee ceremonies starting a fashion for drinking coffee and inspiring an interest in Turquerie.
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Suleiman Effendi. Legatus Ottomanicus Viennam missus 1774.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving with small margins. 205 x 130mm (8¼ x 5¼").
The Ottoman ambassador to Vienna, 1774. The portrait seems to have been adapted from that of Ahmed Resmî Efendi (d.1783), who had been ambassador to Vienna, Berlin & Russia.
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[Suleyman I] Solimannus Turcarum Imperator. Parat ultima terra triumphos / Tigris et Euphrates Sub tua jura fluunt, Prop. l.3.
[after Claude Vignon]
I.I. Haid exc. A.V. [Augsburg, c.1760.]
Mezzotint, 400 x 270mm. 15¾ x 10½", very large margins.
Suleyman I ('the Magnificent'), Ottoman Sultan. From a series of mezzotint portraits copied from a set of small engravings after Claude Vignon published in the early seventeenth century. for another in the series see ref. 10488.
[Ref: 43705] £460.00
[Sultan Ahmed III dressed for Bayram.] Le Grand Seigneur en habit de Ceremonie le jour du Beiram.
JB. P. Simonneau filius. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47034] £320.00
[Sultan Ahmed III at the Seraglio with Kizlar Agha, head Eunach of the Imperial Harem.] Le Grand Seigneur dans le Serrail, avec le Kislar Agassi.
JB. P. Simonneau filius. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47035] £320.00
[The Sultana.] La Sultana Asseki, ou Sultane Reine.
JB. G. Scotin major sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving. Platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") mint with very large margins.
The Sultana pointing to her perfumes. Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis Charles de Ferriol, ambassador from the court of Versailles to the Sublime Porte from 1699 to 1710. The work had a profound effect on how the European conception of Turkey. After Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, who Ferriol brought with him to Istanbul at the age of eighteen. Ferriol commissioned at least a hundred paintings from Vanmour, which served as the source for the engravings in the 'Recueil' and are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
[Ref: 47036] £320.00
[Itinerant sweet seller] Halvadgi. vendeur de Confitures par les rues.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Engraving, mint, platemark 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾") very large margins
Plate from 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis de Ferriol. After Jean-Baptiste van Mour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, remembered for his his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and the rule of Sultan Ahmed III.
[Ref: 46959] £320.00
[Dancing boy] Tchingui. Danseur Turc.
JB. G. Scotin maj. sculp.
Avec Privil. du Roi. [n.d. c.1714.]
Mint engraving. 360 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"), with wide margins.
A professional dancing boy or köçek, published in 'Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant', a set of one hundred plates depicting the costume of the Levant, based on paintings in the collection of the Marquis de Ferriol. Joseph A. Boone, in 'The Homoerotics of Orientalism', notes the fierce reactions which greeted this print on its publication, and that 'male dancers were commonly assumed to be sexually available for pay'. After Jean-Baptiste van Mour (1671-1737), the Flemish-French painter, remembered for his his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and the rule of Sultan Ahmed III. Joseph A. Boone, 'The Homoerotics of Orientalism', pp.102-3.
[Ref: 46928] £320.00
Tchorbadgi, ou Capitaine des Janissaires. Tire de Feriol Voyage au Levant.
Touze d. Feine duflos Sc.
A.D.P.R. A Paris chez Duflos le Jeune. [n.d. c.1787]
Engraving with strong contemporary colour and a gold leaf line border. 277 x 163mm.
[Ref: 2148] £70.00
(£84.00 incl.VAT)
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Rock Tombs at Telmessus.
W. Devereux del.
Dickinson & Co. Lith. [n.d. c.1850.]
Tinted lithograph. 362 x 540mm. 14¼ x 21¼". Some creasing around edges, water staining and chip to lower right corner.
Rock tombs at Telmessus, the main harbour city in Lycia. The modern day city of Fethiye stands on the site of this ancient city leaving the remains of spectacular rock tombs and sarcophagi dating from the 5th-4th century BC.
[Ref: 25680] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)
Rock Tombs at Telmessus.
W. Devereux del.
Dickinson & Co. Lith. [n.d. c.1850.]
Coloured lithograph. 362 x 540mm. 14¼ x 21¼".
Rock tombs at Telmessus, the main harbour city in Lycia. The modern day city of Fethiye stands on the site of this ancient city leaving the remains of spectacular rock tombs and sarcophagi dating from the 5th-4th century BC.
[Ref: 25683] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
English Ambassador's Palace at Terapia.
A.N.del. I.Clark sc.
[Published by Mess.rs Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, 1818.]
Coloured aquatint, rare. Image area 101 x 165mm (4 x 6½"). Cut.
A view of the Ambassador's residence at Terapia, 'built on a little rocky promontory overhanging the "enchanted current" of the Bosphorus'. From Adam Neal, M.D. 'Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia and Turkey', London, 1818.
[Ref: 31165] £65.00
(£78.00 incl.VAT)