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The image is an engraved portrait of a man facing forward. He wears an Ottoman-style tall hat with a crescent motif and an ornate robe with fur trim. The portrait is surrounded by an ornate oval frame with decorative elements and an inscription that includes the name "ACOMATH" and Ottoman family titles.
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The image is an engraved portrait of a man facing forward. He wears an Ottoman-style tall hat with a crescent motif and an ornate robe with fur trim. The portrait is surrounded by an ornate oval frame with decorative elements and an inscription that includes the name "ACOMATH" and Ottoman family titles.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Achmet I, Sultan of Turkey

Robert Vaughan

Medium
engraving
Dimensions
plate: 16.7 × 11.3 cm (6 9/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
Classification
Print · Historical Portrait
Accession number
1951.11.350
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Time span
1551 to 1600
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • British
Provenance

W. B. Dukes [d. 1942], London, (L.2757a); (Sotheby, London, sale July 8, 1942, no. 112); Hermann Marx [d. 1948], Surrey, (L.2816a); (Sotheby, London, sale May 24, 1948, no. 165); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891 - 1979], Philadelphia, (L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1951.

NGA object ID 40632. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.