MEHMET IV

SULTAN ECHMET EMPEREUR DES TURCS AAGE DE 10 ANS.

P. Aubrey excud.

c. 1680

Engraving…17 x 11, 5 cm.

MEHMET IV (1642-1693)…Became Sultan of the ottoman Empire at the age of six…More interested in hunting, he gave up most of his executive power to his Grand Vizier, a situation that was never reversed…During his reign the Ottomans suffered the catastrophic defeat against the Polish army under John III Sobieski (1674-1696) at the battle of Vienna in 1683…