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Cavalry Barracks on the Bosphorus, Antique Constantinople View, circa 1850
$265
€240 · £200
Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- circa 1850
- Sheet size
- 8.3 × 10.6 in (21 × 27 cm)
- Technique
- Steel Engraving
- Coloring
- Uncolored
- Condition
- Good. Even age toning. Handling soiling along the left, right and top edges. Scattered foxing in the margin. Slight wear at the bottom left corner.
- Collection
- Uniforms & regiments
- Era
- 1816 to 1899, Empire and industry
- Stock no.
- BG-14186-1-28
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
This original antique steel engraving shows Cavalry Barracks on the Bosphorus, a plate from the first volume of The Turkish Empire Illustrated, published in London by Peter Jackson about 1850. The long classical front of the cavalry barracks on the Bosphorus with its clock towers and spires, a brig moored off the quay, caiques drawn up at the steps and a crowd of townspeople and soldiers along the waterside under a great plane tree.
This sheet was published in London about 1850 by Peter Jackson, late Fisher, Son and Company, in the first volume of The Turkish Empire Illustrated. Thomas Allom traveled through Constantinople and Asia Minor making the original drawings, and the Reverend Robert Walsh, who had served as chaplain at the British embassy to the Porte, wrote the letterpress. The plates are steel engravings, a technique that holds a far finer line than copper and allowed the long print runs these illustrated travel books required. Each plate in the series carries the draftsman at the lower left and the engraver at the lower right, both printed inside the plate mark, with the English title in script below and a French translation beneath it on many sheets, which is how the publisher sold the work on both sides of the Channel. The fine tonal gradation is the work of the burin alone, with no aquatint or added wash.
These barracks are the architecture of Mahmud the Second's new army, raised after the Janissaries were destroyed in 1826, so the sheet documents the physical fabric of the most consequential reform in late Ottoman history. Framed in gilt or in plain polished wood it suits a study, a library or a dining room, and it sits easily beside maps, marine prints and other nineteenth century travel material.
Even age toning. Handling soiling along the left, right and top edges. Scattered foxing in the margin. Slight wear at the bottom left corner.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.
