Bajazet Kahn I, from Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey

Art Institute of Chicago

Bajazet Kahn I, 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 fourth Ottoman sultan, Bajazet I (or Bayezid), ruled from 1389 to 1403. Known as “The Thunderbolt,” a nickname gained during military campaigns under his father, Amurat I, as well as under his own reign, he was eventually captured by Tamerlane in 1402 at Ankara.

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