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

1639

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

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

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

Wellcome Collection 35711i