Grand Vizier Collection

SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT (1496?-1566). Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 1520-1566. Suleimans consort Khurrem (center) demanding that he put to death his Grand Vizier Ilderim (far right)

The Assassinations at Constantinople: Midhat Pasha, Minister without Portfolio, 1876. Creator: Unknown
The Assassinations at Constantinople: Midhat Pasha, Minister without Portfolio, 1876. Engraving from a photograph by Abdullah Freres

The Genre Painting (image 15 of 28), 1710. Creator: Unknown
The Genre Painting (image 15 of 28), 1710

Grand Vizier, 1700-1737. Creator: Workshop of Jean Baptiste Vanmour
Grand Vizier, 1700-1737

Grand Vizier Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, c.1727-c.1730. Creator: Jean Baptiste Vanmour
Grand Vizier Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, c.1727-c.1730. Damat Ibraham served as Grand Vizier for Sultan Ahmed III of the Ottoman Empire. The epithet Nevsehirli means from Nevsehir

Le retour a la paix; Les delegues ottomans sur la plage arriere du cuirasse francais... 1919. Creator: Unknown
Le retour a la paix; Les delegues ottomans sur la plage arriere du cuirasse francais "Democratie", avant leur depart de Constantinople pour le France ou ils venaient recevoir communication

The Meal in Honour of Ambassador Cornelis Calkoen, c.1727-c.1730. Creator: Jean Baptiste Vanmour
The Meal in Honour of Ambassador Cornelis Calkoen, c.1727-c.1730. Other Title(s): The Meal presented to Ambassador Cornelis Calkoen by the Grand Vizier in the name of Sultan Ahmed III

An Ambassador's Audience with the Grand Vizier in his Yali on the Bosporus (Ambassador Cornelis Calk Creator: Anon)
An Ambassador's Audience with the Grand Vizier in his Yali on the Bosporus (Ambassador Cornelis Calkoen, 12 August 1727), 1700-1800

Mehmed Pasha; Grand Vizier of Turkey, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Mehmed Pasha; Grand Vizier of Turkey, 1854. From "Cassells Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31/12/1853 - 30/12/1854"

Le Grand Vizir, plate five from Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque, 1748. Creator: Joseph-Marie Vien the Elder
Le Grand Vizir, plate five from Caravanne du Sultan a la Mecque, 1748

Uniforms of the Ottoman Turkish army (coloured engraving)
5998787 Uniforms of the Ottoman Turkish army (coloured engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Uniforms of the Ottoman Turkish army)

Member of the Divan, council of the Grand Vizier, Ottoman Empire
6339757 Member of the Divan, council of the Grand Vizier, Ottoman Empire by Dalvimart, Octavian (18th century) (after); (add.info.: Member of the Divan, council of the Grand Vizier, Ottoman Empire)

Grand Vizier to Sultan Selim III, Ottoman Empire
6339788 Grand Vizier to Sultan Selim III, Ottoman Empire by Dalvimart, Octavian (18th century) (after); (add.info.: Grand Vizier to Sultan Selim III, Ottoman Empire)

Domestic servant of the Grand Vizier
6340161 Domestic servant of the Grand Vizier by Dalvimart, Octavian (18th century) (after); (add.info.: Domestic servant of the Grand Vizier)

Sinan Bassa, Cap. Generale del Essercito di Maumet Impe. de Turchi, 1596. [Sinan Pasha, Captain General of the army of Maumet, Emperor of the Turks

Incident in the Voyage of the Grand Vizier to Bulgaria (engraving)
2773138 Incident in the Voyage of the Grand Vizier to Bulgaria (engraving) by Janet, Gustave (b. 1829); Private Collection; (add.info.: Incident in the Voyage of the Grand Vizier to Bulgaria)

Coup d Etat in Constantinople, Turkey, 1913 (litho)
972745 Coup d Etat in Constantinople, Turkey, 1913 (litho) by Paget, Henry Marriott (1856-1936) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Coup d Etat in Constantinople, Turkey, 1913)

The Break up of the Conference, the Grand Vizier returning from the Conference (engraving)
1106151 The Break up of the Conference, the Grand Vizier returning from the Conference (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Break up of the Conference)

The Crisis in Turkey, Officials going to Compliment the New Grand Vizier (engraving)
1106202 The Crisis in Turkey, Officials going to Compliment the New Grand Vizier (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Crisis in Turkey)

The Crisis in Turkey, Installation of Edhem Pasha as Grand Vizier, reading the Imperial Hatt (engraving)
1106190 The Crisis in Turkey, Installation of Edhem Pasha as Grand Vizier, reading the Imperial Hatt (engraving) by English School

Some Prominent Turkish Ministers and Officials (engraving)
1056760 Some Prominent Turkish Ministers and Officials (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Some Prominent Turkish Ministers and Officials)

The Eastern Question, the Fall of Midhat Pasha (engraving)
1059473 The Eastern Question, the Fall of Midhat Pasha (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Eastern Question, the Fall of Midhat Pasha)

The Livingstone Expedition (engraving)
1057862 The Livingstone Expedition (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Livingstone Expedition)

View of Constantinople with a procession of janissaries passing the Galata Tower
BON78193 View of Constantinople with a procession of janissaries passing the Galata Tower by Vanmour, Jean Baptiste (1671-1737) (attr)

Grand Vizier Nevsehirli Damat abrahim Pasa, c. 1727-30 (oil on canvas)
3588445 Grand Vizier Nevsehirli Damat Abrahim Pasa, c.1727-30 (oil on canvas) by Vanmour, Jean Baptiste (1671-1737); 33.5x26 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Grand Vizier directing the assault on Rhodes (engraving)
2808406 The Grand Vizier directing the assault on Rhodes (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Grand Vizier directing the assault on Rhodes)

The Crisis in Turkey, the New Grand Vizier on his Way to receive the Imperial Hatt (engraving)
1106192 The Crisis in Turkey, the New Grand Vizier on his Way to receive the Imperial Hatt (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Crisis in Turkey)

Soudiat Daula, Grand Vizier of the Mongols and his son, Mirza Mani (1774) (engraving)
958002 Soudiat Daula, Grand Vizier of the Mongols and his son, Mirza Mani (1774) (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Soudiat Daula)

The Sultan of Morocco amusing by playing a joke on his Grand Vizier (colour litho)
3097576 The Sultan of Morocco amusing by playing a joke on his Grand Vizier (colour litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

The presentation of the Count de Vergennes, Louis XVs ambassador, to Reis Effendi
5938173 The presentation of the Count de Vergennes, Louis XVs ambassador, to Reis Effendi, Grand Vizier to the Ottoman Sultan Uthman III on 31 May 1755

The Shah in London (engraving)
1595970 The Shah in London (engraving) by Wright, Henry Charles Seppings (1850-1937); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Shah in London. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 6 July 1889)

Mehemet Rushdi Pasha, Grand Vizier (engraving)
1059356 Mehemet Rushdi Pasha, Grand Vizier (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mehemet Rushdi Pasha, Grand Vizier)

Kiamil Pasha, New Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b / w photo)
1100287 Kiamil Pasha, New Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b/w photo) by English photographer, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Kiamil Pasha)

Edhem Pasha, the New Grand Vizier (engraving)
1106188 Edhem Pasha, the New Grand Vizier (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Edhem Pasha, the New Grand Vizier)

Our Obituary Record (engraving)
1057465 Our Obituary Record (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Our Obituary Record)

The Meal in Honour of Ambassador Cornelis Calkoen, c. 1727-30 (oil on canvas)
3588448 The Meal in Honour of Ambassador Cornelis Calkoen, c.1727-30 (oil on canvas) by Vanmour, Jean Baptiste (1671-1737); 90x120 cm; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Crisis in Constantinople (engraving)
1056742 The Crisis in Constantinople (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Crisis in Constantinople)

Audience Given in Constantinople by the Grand Vizier Aimali Carac for Francois-Emmanuel Guignard, Co Artist: Casanova
Audience Given in Constantinople by the Grand Vizier Aimali Carac for Francois-Emmanuel Guignard, Comte de Saint-Priest, 18th Ma

Kara Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier, ca 1683. Artist: Anonymous
Kara Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier, ca 1683. Found in the collection of the Vienna Museum

Portrait of a Grand Vizier, c. 1740. Artist: Liotard, Jean-Etienne (1702-1789)
Portrait of a Grand Vizier, c. 1740. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, ca 1728. Found in the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Hussein Abni Pasha, c1906, (1907). Hussein Abni Pasha (1819-1876), influential military leader, holding positions; General governor of Smyrna in 1872

Mustafa Bairakdar, c1906, (1907). Mustafa Bairakdar (1775-1808), Ottoman military commander and a Grand Vizier, Influential dignitary of Turkey in the Nineteenth Century

Charles XII of Sweden and the Grand Vizier, 1709-1713. Artist: Wilson
Charles XII of Sweden and the Grand Vizier, 1709-1713. Charles (Karl) XII (1682-1718) was King of Sweden from 1697. Charles lived in exile in the Ottoman city of Bender (Tighina)

Chaous Bachi Tchavouch Bachi chief herald commander
The Chaous Bachi, The Tchavouch Bachi, chief herald, commander of the messengers of the sultan and lieutenant of the grand vizier in his capacity as judge

Mehmet vizir kAhyasi Mehmet vizir kAhyasi portrait
Mehmet, the vizir kahyasi Mehmet, the vizir kahyasi, The portrait of Mehmet, the vizir kahyasi (lieutenant) of the grand vizier

Grand visor Kara Mustafa strangled silk cord
Grand visor Kara Mustafa strangled with a silk cord, 1683 The great Visor strangled in the Year 1683 (title on object), Print upper right marked: fol

GAZI AHMED MUHTAR PASHA (1839-1919). Turkish Ottoman grand vizier and general. Engraving portrait as High Commissioner for Egypt, 1885

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"The Grand Vizier: Power, Politics, and Intrigue in the Ottoman Empire" Step into the captivating world of the Grand Vizier, a position of immense influence and authority in the Ottoman Empire. From Suleiman the Magnificent to Sultan Selim III, these powerful figures shaped history with their cunning strategies and ruthless decisions. In this litho depiction of Christmas Entertainments, we witness Suleiman's consort Khurrem demanding the execution of Ilderim, his trusted Grand Vizier. The intricate line engraving from 1901 transports us back to a time when loyalty could be shattered by political ambitions. Explore the vibrant uniforms of the Ottoman Turkish army through a colored engraving. These soldiers were under the command of their esteemed Grand Viziers who held sway over matters both military and administrative. However, not all stories surrounding these influential figures are filled with glory. In "The Crimes of Politics, " we see an unsettling scene depicting the killing of Mahmud Scevket, another Grand Vizier met with a tragic fate alongside his aide. This color litho reminds us that power can often come at a great cost. Delve further into Ottoman culture as you discover intricately designed national costumes captured in colored engravings. These garments reflect both tradition and status within society - even for those serving as domestic servants to esteemed individuals like the Grand Vizier. Sinan Bassa stands tall as Capitano Generale del Essercito di Maumet Impe de Turchi in an exquisite painting from 1596. His role as one among many council members advising the Grand Vizier showcases how power was distributed within this complex empire. Witness historical events unfold before your eyes through mesmerizing artwork such as "The Hanging of Haman" from vellum pages dating back centuries ago. Such biblical tales were not only sources of inspiration but also reminders that even the Grand Vizier's decisions could have far-reaching consequences.