Mustapha Kahn, from Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey

Prints and Drawings

1815

John Young
English, 1755-1825

The fifteenth Ottoman sultan, Mustapha I, ruled briefly from 1617 to 1618 and from 1622 to 1623, without much national or international incident. Contemporary sources described him as mentally ill, “childish” or “unbalanced,” while others believed him to be a holy figure. Here John Young simplifies the original miniature portrait, which showed the sultan standing before a bookcase of some 200 volumes, by leaving him with a single book in his hand. Mustapha is the only member of the warrior-like clan to be shown in such a literary pose.

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Artist: John Young
Title: Mustapha Kahn, 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: 2011.1093
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