'Constantinople',

An image showing 'PAI4874; From album entitled 'Views of Smyrna and the Bosphorus', original drawings circa 1841, by G.Schranz.'

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Mounted in album with PAI4871-PAI4873, PAI4875-PAI4880.; No.4.

Bears lower-margin title as above, in pencil. The view is looking from the inner end of the Golden Horn towards the Bosphorus and and further inscriptions below, l. to r. identify: 'Galata' to the left, under which appears 'Schrantz. Fecit. 1841'; King[?] Kulessi /The Girls' tower' (an island tower); 'The Seraglio [Topkapi Palace]/ St. Sophia, Sultan Selim ['Ahmet' crossed out], / mosques'. Down the right margin: 'Tower of / Galata / Burial ground of Pera' and 'Palace of Beshiktlash'. The two 'Towers' are identified by thumbnail sketches.

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Object Details

ID:	PAI4874
Type:	Drawing
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Schranz, Giuseppe
Places:	Istanbul
Date made:	1841
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Image: 264 x 408 mm
Parts:	Album entitled 'Views of Smyrna and the Bosphorus', original drawings, ca.1841 (Album) 'Gulf of Smyrna and part of the city from the heights of Cuklugah' (Drawing) (PAI4871) 'Constantinople' (Drawing) (PAI4872) 'Bosphorus' (Drawing) (PAI4873) 'Constantinople', (Drawing) (PAI4874) 'The Golden Horn' [ 'Constantinople and the floating bridge from the dry dock, Arsenal'] (Drawing) (PAI4875) 'Constantinople' ['The At Meidan - the antient Hippodrome'] (Drawing) (PAI4876) 'The Bosphorus' [Therapia and Yenikeui] (Drawing) (PAI4877) 'The Bosphorus' [Therapia] (Drawing) (PAI4878) 'The Bosphorus' ['Russian Encampment at Hunkiar Skellessi, 1841'] (Drawing) (PAI4879) 'Entrance to the Bosphorus from the Black Sea' (Drawing) (PAI4880)