The Fall of Constantinople in 1493

Four illustrations of the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman army, led by Sultan Mehmed II. Above is prospect from across the Golden Horn, with the city and Pera in flames. Below are three scenes; left, the Ottomans enter the city; middle, the Ottomans parade in the city square; and right, the Ottomans rush the ships escaping with refugees. A variant of the plate used in the 'Kriegs-Helm', a history of the Turkish wars by Christoph Boethius, published by Johann Christoph Lochner in Nuremberg, 1688.