KARA MUSTAFA PAŞA

INFLEIX KARA MUSTAPHA BASSA

MAGNI TURCARUM IMPERATORIS MINISTER PRIMARIUS;

POST ACCEPTAM CLADEM ANTE VIENNAM AB EODEM OBSESSAM…

J. GOLE Sc.

Ex Formis Ludovici Renard cum Privil: Ordin: Gen: Belgii federati

c. 1690

Engraving…17th Century watermark; sheet 36,5 x 26 cm.

MERZİFONLU KARA MUSTAFA PAŞA (c. 1634-1683) Ottoman military leader and Grand Vizier to Sultan Mehmet IV (1642-1693)…He led the Ottomans to their catastrophic defeat against the Polish army under John III Sobieski (1674-1696) at the battle of Vienna in 1683…Mehmet had him executed, starngled with a silk cord in Belgrade…