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Frieze panorama of Constantinople and its environs, c.1802

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1167/A/3/15
Scope and Contents

Frieze Panorama showing 360° view of Constantinople, the Bosphorus Strait and its environs from an elevated vantage point, showing many rooftops, minarets, mosques and other buildings, passageways, boats and ships. Drawn in situ by Henry Aston Barker, etched by Charles Tomkins, and aquatinted by Frederick Christian and George Robert Lewis. Henry Aston Barker exhibited his Panoramas of Constantinople in 1802 and they were later published in 8 plates.

Dates: c.1802