'The Golden Horn' [ 'Constantinople and the floating bridge from the dry dock, Arsenal']

An image showing 'PAI4875; From album entitled 'Views of Smyrna and the Bosphorus', original drawings circa 1841, by G.Schranz.'

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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
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
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)