Bidspirit auction | ENGRAVING OF OTTOMAN SULTAN SULEYMAN

ENGRAVING OF OTTOMAN SULTAN SULEYMAN III, THE MAGNIFICENT - Ca. Late 17th - early 18th century AD. A framed copperplate engraving of the portrait of Suleyman III, The Magnificent. For similar please see: Portraits et figures du Levant. The costumes of the Near East, Album assembled in the early 18th century, containing about 120 cut-outs and mounted text engravings and figures from engraved plates, including 65 contemporary coloured figures on 36 separate leaves from N. de Nicolay's ”Navigations et peregrinations Orientales” published in 1591 and considered ”the first work to represent the costume of the Near East in detail” Size: 570mm x 470mm (framed dimensions); Weight: 1.4kg Provenance: Previous property of an Islamic art professional. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.