Othman Kahn III, from Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey
John Young
1815
- Medium
- Mezzotint, hand-colored with brush and watercolor, on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 37.5 × 25.3 cm (14 13/16 × 10 in.)
- Genre
- mezzotint
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
mezzotintprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
The twenty-fifth Ottoman sultan, Othman III (Osman) ruled from 1754 to 1757 without much incident. His distinctive style of jewel-embroidered robe appears to have been adopted from his predecessor, Mahmud I, and reappears in John Young’s treatments of the remaining sultans.
