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Three Mamelukes on horseback, 1526
by Jan Swart van Groningen



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Drie Mamelukken te paard
Willem Liefrinck Jan Swart van Groningen, 1526, print, Rijksmuseum, RP-P-1950-409A
Uit serie van vijf prenten met een stoet van Turken.

Three Mamelukes on horseback
Willem Liefrinck, Jan Swart van Groningen, 1526, print, Rijksmuseum, Netherlands, RP-P-1950-409A
From a series of five prints with a procession of Turks.

The shield design with four "B"s is associated with Byzantium. The mamluk shaggy red zamt hat had been banned by the Ottomans after their conquest of Egypt in 1517.


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