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Solyman The Magnificent Going To Mosque

Print
1877 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Photolithograph from a volume of plates (12) including title page, with head and tail pieces, decorative pieces, initials, and descriptive text. Publisher's binding in quarter green morocco, with photolithographs on front and back covers, lettered variously 'Cesare Vecellio. Del. Circa 1590'. Most plates lettered with description in Italian. Some plates lettered with title in English, Latin and Turkish, or French. Most plates numbered.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleSolyman The Magnificent Going To Mosque (series title)
Materials and techniques
Photolithograph
Brief description
Photolithograph by Pietro Corrado Smorti from a series of 8 entitled 'Solyman The Magnificent Going To Mosque', printed for Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Great Britain, 1877.
Physical description
Photolithograph from a volume of plates (12) including title page, with head and tail pieces, decorative pieces, initials, and descriptive text. Publisher's binding in quarter green morocco, with photolithographs on front and back covers, lettered variously 'Cesare Vecellio. Del. Circa 1590'. Most plates lettered with description in Italian. Some plates lettered with title in English, Latin and Turkish, or French. Most plates numbered.
Dimensions
  • Size of covers height: 52cm
  • Width: 39cm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A
Subject depicted
Place depicted
Collection
Accession number
SP.562:2

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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