In 1683 the town of Vienna was besieged for two months by a great Turkish army led by the grand vizier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Mustafa_Pasha" class="extiw" title="en:Kara Mustafa Pasha">Kara Mustafa Pasha</a>. The development of the siege was rather spectaculair especially since the capture of the city was frustrated at the very last moment by an allied army led by the Polish king <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_III_Sobieski" class="extiw" title="en:John III Sobieski">John_III_Sobieski</a>. The Polish King helped Vienna because he believed that after the fall of Vienna, the Turkish army would attack the core of the Polish nation, Krakow. The Polish king succeeded to relieve the city and to conquer the Turkish army. In 1683, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaes_Visscher_II" class="extiw" title="en:Nicolaes Visscher II">Nicolaes Visscher II</a> (1649-1702) published a series of ten prints about the Turkish siege of the city of Vienna with the most important pictures of the war. The prints were engraved by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeyn_de_Hooghe" class="extiw" title="en:Romeyn de Hooghe">Romeyn de Hooghe</a> (1645-1708) after drawings from the Antwerp artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Peeters" class="extiw" title="en:Jacob Peeters">Jacob
						Peeters</a> .
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