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Verhenas Sultane. Half-length female figure wearing an embroidered dress and a headdress with fringe decorated with jewels. Signed with monogram ML F(ecit) and dated 1581 at upper right. Lettered below: 'VERHENAS SULTANE.'. Lorck produced a series of 127 woodcuts of Turkish military, costume and daily life between 1570 and 1583, based on his journey to Constantinople (1555-1559) accompanying an imperial embassy, this is one of them. --- Verhenas Sultane: Princess and daughter of a turkish emperor. From a young age she was very misshapen, but her heartfelt place of virtue replaced the abomination by nature. To cure herself she moved to asia and laid herself down on the shore of a river. Miraculously, she actually recovered there and had a large palace built with the help of her father.