BARBAROS HAYREDDİN PAŞA (d. y. 1478, Midilli – ö. 5 Temmuz 1546, İstanbul),

c. 1580

19 x 30 cm.

Antique exquisite woodcut originates from the French edition of “Cosmographia” by Sebastian Münster, dating back to the 1580s. The Cosmographia is a breathtaking work of art and scholarship that continues to captivate readers today. It is a comprehensive guide to the world as it was known in the 16th century, filled with fascinating details and insights about different cultures and regions. The Cosmographia was translated into multiple languages, such as Latin, French (translated by François de Belleforest), Italian, English, and Czech, and went through 24 editions over a century, the last German edition being published in 1628, long after the death of its author. Its widespread success can be attributed to the striking woodcuts, which were created by renowned artists such as Hans Holbein the Younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, and David Kandel. Sebastian Münster, the author of the Cosmographia, was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and Hebrew scholar who lived from 1488 to 1552.

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Photo from the First World War photo collection. Published by Bild- und Film Amt, 1917-1918, with pasted text strips in Swedish. The Bild- und Film Amt (Bufa) was formed in January 1917 and consisted of seven groups of mobile operators, each consisting of an officer, a cameraman, a photographer and two assistants, whose mission was to produce propaganda material which, apart from internal use, then it was sent to European newspaper editorial offices with pasted text strips in each language.

29 cm x 23 cm.

This photo is taken on the deck of Yavuz Sultan Selim (Goeben)

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Engraving by LEMAITRE, LALAISSE and MORET

c.1840

from “Historia de Turquia” by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules VAN GAVER..

SELIM III (1761-1808), Ottoman Sultan from 1789 to 1807…

Selim III (1761-1808). Ottoman sultan from 1789 to 1807. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Moret. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840.

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Francois BOUCHER

c. 1730-50

Simon Francis Ravenet, 
After François Boucher French
Publisher Gabriel Huquier French

ca. 1730–50

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First exhibited in London in 1838, the year of Allan’s election as President of the Royal Scottish Academy, this complex and ambitious picture confirmed the artist’s status as a pioneer of British Orientalist painting. In 1829-30 Allan had travelled to Constantinople with the ambassadors who concluded the treaty which ended the struggle for Greek independence from Turkish domination. In the central group of the painting, which was supposedly based on Allan’s direct experience, an Egyptian slave-merchant is shown selling a Greek girl to a Turkish Pasha on horseback. The melodrama of the scene with the girl being torn form her distraught family contrasts with the relaxed group of men about to be served tea. Allan brought back many Turkish items which he used when composing this picture.

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Matthaus SEUTTER

c.1740

59.5 x 51.5 cm., COLORED

Old coloured copper engraving by Matthäus Seutter after Gottfried Rogg, c. 1740. Family trees of the Greek and Ottoman sultans, below magnificent typifying representation of the two rulers with their respective emblematic attributes, cross and crescent moon. Top left: border-coloured switch-on card of the Ottoman Empire “Imperium Turcicum per Europam Asiam et Africam se extendes et Secundum Beglirbegatus S. Praefecturas accurate distinctum”.

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Matthaus SEUTTER

c.1740

59.5 x 51.5 cm.

Old coloured copper engraving by Matthäus Seutter after Gottfried Rogg, c. 1740. Family trees of the Greek and Ottoman sultans, below magnificent typifying representation of the two rulers with their respective emblematic attributes, cross and crescent moon. Top left: border-coloured switch-on card of the Ottoman Empire “Imperium Turcicum per Europam Asiam et Africam se extendes et Secundum Beglirbegatus S. Praefecturas accurate distinctum”.

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ALBIZZI, Antonio (1547-1626) Augsburg

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ALBIZZI, Antonio (1547-1626) Augsburg

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ALBIZZI, Antonio (1547-1626) Augsburg

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