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Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts

Portrait of Mahmud I, from A Series of Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey
1815, engraved by John Young (English, 1755–1825)
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National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C., gift of Mr. Ferdinand Lammot Belin, N7614.T9 Y6.
Photograph courtesy National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.