Mahomet the Great

Portrait of Muhammad II, Ottoman Sultan, whole-length, standing, directed and looking to the left, wearing armour and turban, right hand on hip, left hand on large shield with coat of arms; battle view behind in the distance.

From the The Portraictures at large of Nine Modern Worthies of the World, published in 1622.

Engraving and etching, 1622, lettered with four lines about the sitter in lower margin beginning "Mahomet the Great, who was the greatest scourgeto Schristendome / of all the Turkish Emperours. [...]".

Robert Vaughan (c. 1600–c. 1663) was an engraver of Welsh origin who was active in London from the 1620s. Although not the most skilled of his craft he was prolific, making numerous portrait prints, title-pages and maps. His earliest and most interesting plates, created when he worked for Compton Holland, include the series The Portraictures at Large of Nine Modern Worthies of the World, of 1622 and The XII Monthes of the Yeare in the Habits of Severall Nations, from the early 1620s. Vaughan  also engraved monumental brasses, which may help to  explain his broad and crude style with the burin.

Bibliografia

Hind, Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (III.89.114).