Bajazet Kahn I, 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 fourth Ottoman sultan, Bajazet I (or Bayezid), ruled from 1389 to 1403. Known as “The Thunderbolt,” a nickname gained during military campaigns under his father, Amurat I, as well as under his own reign, he was eventually captured by Tamerlane in 1402 at Ankara.
