Soliman Kahn I, from Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey

Prints and Drawings

1815

John Young
English, 1755-1825

The tenth Ottoman sultan, Süleyman “the Magnificent” expanded his empire through Hungary, ruling exceptionally long, from 1520 to 1566. He besieged Vienna in 1529, setting all of Europe on edge, but did not in the end breach the city’s gates. He was a patron of the arts, both Eastern and Western, and his court accommodated several visiting artists, such as Melchior Lorck and Pieter Coecke van Aelst, who brought some of the first true representations of Turkish life back to Europe.

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Artist: John Young
Title: Soliman Kahn I, from Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1815
Medium: Mezzotint, hand-colored with brush and watercolor, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 37.5 × 25.3 cm (14 13/16 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Barbara Kipper
Reference Number: 2011.1090
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