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Although the concept of the atlas, which emerged in the XVIth century when the history of world cartography had been on the rise and was originally used for map compilations, in the course of time, this description changed and has been associated with the book form providing information about the places on the map. These works that contain topographic details specific to the geography of the region are also decorated with pictures that shed light on the historical and social development of the age. One of the first of its kind is the “Dirk van der Hagen’s Atlas”, dated 1690, preserved in the Royal Library of the Netherlands. The work of art prepared in four volumes is a composite map book, which was compiled as a history and geography atlas. The atlas constituting almost a model for its characteristics of covering the earliest country maps of the period, includes many colorful prints from paintings about political developments to mythological scenes, from city views to landscape views.
The subject of the article is the engravings of visual contributions to the Ottoman war history. Starting with the Siege of Candia (1667-1669) and continuing with the Second Siege of Vienna (1683), and mentioning the battles of Anabolu (1686) and Belgrade (1688), these depictions existing in the study, were interpreted ichnographically in the context of image-text relation. The message given by the painter was tried to be examined with the help of tracing the political and historical process of the era through these engravings. In this way, the interpretability of the picture was discussed by contributing to the visual narrative of the XVIIth century Ottoman history on the battlefields.