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Customs and Fashions of the Turks


Les Moeurs et Fachom de faire de Turcz
Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Netherlandish, 1502–1550)
about 1533/34, published 1553

Medium/Technique Woodcuts
Dimensions Each block, approximately: 28 x 47 cm (11 x 18 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number39.537a-j
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hollstein, vol. IV, pp. 198-99, no. 4; Nagler III p. 26
DescriptionFrieze, divided by herms, into seven vignettes; printed from fourteen blocks on ten sheets
Provenance1939, sold by Craddock and Barnard, Tunbridge Wells, UK, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 9, 1939)