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Beauties Of The Bosphorus

Print
1838-40 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Etching from a volume entitled 'Beauties Of The Bosphorus', consisting of plates (79) bound in four quarterly parts, with descriptive text. Dedicated by the author to 'The Most Excellent Vizir Mustafa Rachid Pasha'. Each part quarter bound in publisher's crimson morocco and printed boards, rebacked. Plates lettered with title (some also in French and German), name of artist and engraver, and, variously, London, Published for the Proprietors, by Geo. Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane. Dated 1838 or 1839 (except the last one, 1840).


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleBeauties Of The Bosphorus (series title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
Etching after a drawing by W. H. Bartlett, from a volume by Julia Pardoe entitled 'Beauties Of The Bosphorus', consisting of plates (79) bound in four quarterly parts, with descriptive text. First Quarterly Part, published in London, 1838-40.
Physical description
Etching from a volume entitled 'Beauties Of The Bosphorus', consisting of plates (79) bound in four quarterly parts, with descriptive text. Dedicated by the author to 'The Most Excellent Vizir Mustafa Rachid Pasha'. Each part quarter bound in publisher's crimson morocco and printed boards, rebacked. Plates lettered with title (some also in French and German), name of artist and engraver, and, variously, London, Published for the Proprietors, by Geo. Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane. Dated 1838 or 1839 (except the last one, 1840).
Dimensions
  • Size of covers height: 27.6cm
  • Width: 21.1cm
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
Places depicted
Collection
Accession number
SP.444:35

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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