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'The Golden Horn' [ 'Constantinople and the floating bridge from the dry dock, Arsenal']
Mounted in album with PAI4871-PAI4874, PAI4876-PAI4880.; No.5. Bears lower-margin title of 'The Golden Horn' in pencil with the longer descriptive line in a more sloping hand at the bottom of the sheet: Additional annotations on the lower margin identify (left) the 'Tower of the Seraskier', with a thumbnail sketch of it, and (right) the 'aqueduct of Valens?' (which it is) in the same hand as 'The Golden Horn'. Now known as the Beyazıt Tower, the Seraskier Tower (the title of the Ottoman Minister of War), is an 85 m (279 ft) tall fire-watch tower now located in the courtyard of Istanbul University's main campus (which was formerly that Ottoman ministry) on Beyazıt Square: it was rebuilt in 1828. The large mosque at centre with four minarets is the Suleymaniye (the Mosque of Suleiman the Magnificent), and to its right possibly the Fatih Camii.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAI4875 |
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| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Schranz, Giuseppe |
| Places: | Unlinked place |
| Date made: | circa 1841 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Image: 267 mm x 410 mm |
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Album entitled 'Views of Smyrna and the Bosphorus', original drawings, ca.1841 (Album)
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