MRP: Constantinople
Constantinople
Editorial history
05/12/11, CSG: Created page & uploaded image of townscape
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Images
Eastern Mediterranean, the Lesser Asia & Arabia, Sandys, 1621
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) 'Map of Eastern Mediterranean, the lesser Asia and Arabia', in Sandys, George, A relation of a Journey begun An Dom. 1610: Fovre bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning, 2nd edn. (London, 1621), opp. p. 1[1]
(2) 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[2]
- Out of copyright book & image
- Sourced from Internet Archive
(3) de Fer, Nicholas, 'Veue de Constantinople' in Les forces de Europe (Amsterdam, 1702)
- Out of copyright book
- Sourced, with thanks, from Rare Books website[3]
(4) 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[4]
- Out of copyright book & image
- Sourced from Internet Archive
(5) 'Map of Constantinople and the Bosphorus', frontpiece, in Allom, Thomas, Constantinople and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor, vol. 1 (London, 1839)[5]
Town profile
Notes
Suggested image sources
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
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
Lewis, John Frederick, Illustrations of Constantinople, made during a residence in that city etc. in the years 1835-6: arranged and drawn on stone from the original sketches of Coke Smyth (London, 1837)
- No Internet Archive copy
- 27 tinted lithographs by Lewis after Coke Smyth, 2 showing two subjects
Thelot, XXXX, Fauxbourgs de Constantimople (XXXX, 1760)
Suggested primary sources
Suggested secondary sources
- ↑ 'Map of Eastern Mediterranean, the lesser Asia and Arabia' in George Sandys, A relation of a Journey begun An Dom. 1610: Fovre bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning, 2nd edn. (London, 1621), opp. p. 1
- ↑ This is the footnote text
- ↑ http://www.forumrarebooks.com/Fer-Nicolas-Les-forces-de-europe-ou-description.html, viewed 05/12/11
- ↑ This is the footnote text
- ↑ 'Map of Constantinople and the Bosphorus', frontpiece, in Thomas Allom, Constantinople and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor, vol. 1 (London, 1839), opp. p. i
