The head of a Turk, surmounted by an eagle holding thunderbolts, and surmounting a strapwork panel announcing the manners and fashions of the Turks. Process print, 1873, after a woodcut, 1553.

1873

1 print : process print ; image 28.2 x 11.4 cm

Ces moeurs & fachons de faire de Turcz avecq' les regions y appertenantes, ont este au vif contrefaictez par Pierre Coeck d'Alost, luy estant en Turquie l'an de Jesu Christ M.D.33, lequel aussy de sa main propre a pourtraict ces figures duysantes à l'impression d'ycelles.

"The title page and the colophon (fig. 23) with elaborate strapwork and scrollwork like design, in the style of Cornelis Bos ('s Hertogenbosch, before 1515-Groningen, 1555) and Cornelis II Floris de Vriendt (Antwerp, 1514-1575), provide the data about this set, mentioning explicitly that the scenes were 'au vif contrefaictez par Pierre Coeck dAlost, luy estant en Turquie, l'an de Iesuchrist M.D. 33' and that the woodcuts were published posthumously, three years after the death of the artist, by his widow, Mayken Verhulst (Malines, 1518-after 1593/1596)."--Born. op. cit., p. 284

Annick Born, 'The Moeurs et fachons de faire de Turcs. Süleyman and Charles V: iconographic discourse, enhancement of power and magnificence, or two faces of the same coin?', in The Habsburgs and their courts in Europe, 14001700. Between cosmopolitism and regionalism, KU Leuven 2012, pp. 283-302

Wellcome Collection 3106279i