An allegory relating to the fortunes of the Turks, a winged figure probably representing Time stands on a fallen Turk while sharpening a blade on a wheel inscribed with the continents that is being turned by a semi-dressed figure, at right the city of Vardino (northwest Romania near the Hungarian border) that was held by the Turks from 1660 to 1692.
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- Title: An allegory relating to the fortunes of the Turks, a winged figure probably representing Time stands on a fallen Turk while sharpening a blade on a wheel inscribed with the continents that is being turned by a semi-dressed figure, at right the city of Vardino (northwest Romania near the Hungarian border) that was held by the Turks from 1660 to 1692.
- Artist: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (Italian, Bologna (?) 1634–1718 Bologna)
- Date: ca. 1692
- Medium: Etching
- Dimensions: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 16 5/16 in. (30.4 × 41.5 cm)
Plate: 7 5/16 × 10 1/16 in. (18.5 × 25.5 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Purchase, Carolyn H. Specht Gift and Charles Z. Offin Fund, 2017
- Object Number: 2017.120
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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