MRP: Constantinople
Constantinople
Editorial history
05/12/11, CSG: Created page & uploaded image of townscape
Contents
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Images
Bosphorous (London, 1729)
Veue de Constantinople (Amsterdam, 1702)
The Seraglio Point of Constantinople (London, 1729)
Constantinople & the Bosphorus, Allom, 1839
Image credits & copyright information
(1) Gilles, Pierre, The Antiquities of Constantinople. With a Description of its Situation, the Conveniences of its Port, its Public Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture and other Curiosities of that City. With Cuts Explaining the Chief of them... Translated into English ... By John Ball (London, 1729), plate I
- Out of copyright book & image
- Sourced from Internet Archive
(2) de Fer, Nicholas, 'Veue de Constantinople' in Les forces de Europe (Amsterdam, 1702)
- Out of copyright book
- Sourced, with thanks, from Rare Books website[1]
(3) Gilles, Pierre, The Antiquities of Constantinople. With a Description of its Situation, the Conveniences of its Port, its Public Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture and other Curiosities of that City. With Cuts Explaining the Chief of them... Translated into English ... By John Ball (London, 1729), plate XI
- Out of copyright book & image
- Sourced from Internet Archive
Town profile
Notes
Suggested image sources
Gilles, Pierre, The Antiquities of Constantinople. With a Description of its Situation, the Conveniences of its Port, its Public Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture and other Curiosities of that City. With Cuts Explaining the Chief of them... Translated into English ... By John Ball (London, 1729)
- Includes eleven copper plate engravings, after p. 284
[Allom, Thomas, Constantinople and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor, vol. 1 (London, 1839)]
- Illustrated in a series of drawings from nature
- Plates:
-- Constantinople from the Golden Horn, Frontspiece
-- Map of Constantinople To face p. i
-- The Great Bazaar To face p. 41
-- Entrance to the Bosphorous from the Black Sea To facte p. 52
-- Caravansary at Gazal-Hissar, on the Meander To face p. 76
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