SELİM II

SELIMUS SECUNDUS

IMPERATOR TURCARUM DECIMUSQUINTUS.

SELİM DE TWEEDE VAN DIEN NAME, DE 15 TURCKSCHE KYSER.

Jan CLOPPENBURCH,

Amsterdam, 1621

Engraving, 18 x 13 cm. (trimmed from larger sheet.Repaired tears; glued to backing sheet..)

Engraved by Nicolaes de CLERCK for a Dutch edition of Pierre Davity’s “Les Estats, empires et principautex du Monde”…

SELİM II (SARI/SARHOŞ SELİM) (1524-1574), son of Suleiman the Magnificent known as “Selim the Drunkard”…Among his few successes was the capture of Cyprus in 1571, but the destruction of the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto the same year has been pinpointed as the beginning of the slow decline of the Empire…