1726 View of a Turkish Party and its King by Benard Picart in Copper Engraving

Early french study of an important  event within Turkish Society under the Ottoman Empire. A copper intaglio engraving of the best quality, emulated by academics for a generation to come, this original and seminal view is one of a few from a deaccession from Ware Memorial Library at Columbia University in NYC. Condition is superlative with a dark impression on soft hand laid paper , of the period . 18 x 24" folio