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Houses of Worship
Yeni Jami and Sultan Selim, Pair of Antique Mosque Views, circa 1850
Anno Domini MDCCCLcirca 1850
£145
$195 · €175
Original print, not a reproduction
A set of 2 sheets, sold together as one piece at this price.
Ships worldwide from the Netherlands, flat or rolled, insured and tracked. 14-day returns.
- Date
- circa 1850
- Sheet size
- 8.3 × 10.6 in (21 × 27 cm)
- Technique
- Steel Engraving
- Coloring
- Uncolored
- Condition
- Good. Even age toning throughout. Marked handling soiling along the edges of both sheets. Light foxing in the margins of both sheets. All corners complete on every sheet.
- Faith
- Islam
- Collection
- Houses of Worship
- Era
- 1850 and after, Chromolithographs and devotional prints
- Stock no.
- BG-14186-2-17
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 is an original set of two antique steel engravings from the second volume of The Turkish Empire Illustrated, published in London by Peter Jackson about 1850, sold together as a set and not available singly. The first sheet shows the Yeni Cami rising straight out of the water at Eminonu, its cascade of domes and twin minarets above the quay, with loaded caiques, a lateen rigged craft and a crowded landing stage filling the foreground. The second sheet shows the mosque of Selim the Third at Scutari with its dome and twin minarets above a walled court, cypresses and tombs at its foot, and figures and a laden animal on the open ground in front of the precinct.
They are two original sheets sold together, and the set is never split. They come from the second volume of The Turkish Empire Illustrated, drawn by Thomas Allom and John Richardson Coke Smyth, with descriptions by the Reverend Robert Walsh and published in London by Peter Jackson at the Caxton Press about 1850. Every sheet is a steel engraving of the same size, printed without color as issued, with the draftsman lettered at the lower left, the engraver at the lower right and the publisher's imprint beneath the title.
The Yeni Jami plate is after John Richardson Coke Smyth, a traveling artist best known for his Canadian subjects, and one of the few plates in the volume not drawn by Allom. Selim the Third was the reforming sultan destroyed by the Janissaries he tried to replace, and the Selimiye complex at Scutari was built beside the barracks of his new model army. The barracks next door became Florence Nightingale's hospital a few years after this plate was drawn. A matched group hung together reads as one piece of furniture on a wall rather than as several small pictures, and because the sheets are the same size they frame identically and line up without compromise. Framed alike in plain dark moldings with equal mounts they suit a hall, a stair, a study or a dining room.
Even age toning throughout. Marked handling soiling along the edges of both sheets. Light foxing in the margins of both sheets. All corners complete on every sheet.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.
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