Othman Kahn III, from Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey

Art Institute of Chicago

Othman Kahn III, from Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey

John Young

Date
1815
Medium
Mezzotint, hand-colored with brush and watercolor, on ivory wove paper
Culture
England
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

The twenty-fifth Ottoman sultan, Othman III (Osman) ruled from 1754 to 1757 without much incident. His distinctive style of jewel-embroidered robe appears to have been adopted from his predecessor, Mahmud I, and reappears in John Young’s treatments of the remaining sultans.

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