Saladin proclaims that he will only take his shirt to his grave. Engraving by John Payne, 1639.

  • John Payne
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1639
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35711i
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1639

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 14.2 x 9 cm

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Victorious Saladine caus'd to be proclaim'd to all his armie that he carried nothing with him to the grave but a shirt after all his conquests. Bears number top left : pag. 95

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M. Corbett and M. Norton, Engraving in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Cambridge 1964, p. 24

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Wellcome Collection 35711i

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