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Voyage dans la Mer Noire, le Bosphore, la Mer de Marmara & les Dardanelles

Lithograph
1854 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, with additional colouring by hand, entitled 'Soujak Bay (Crimée, Mer Noire)'. Lettered with title and 'Voyage Dans La Mer Noire, Le Bosphore Et Les Dardanelles', and variously, 'Dessiné par Durand Brager, Peintre de Marine, attaché à l'escadre Française. Goupil & Ce. Paris, Berlin, New York. E. Gambart & Co. P. & D. Colnaghi London. Imp. Lemercier, Paris.' Numbered with plate number and stamped variously 'Goupil & Cie. Editeurs A Paris'.
Also lettered 'Ville Russe bien fortifiée. Bon mouillage. Town well fortified. Good anchorage. Lithographié par Eug. Cicéri et Ph.Benoist'.

Object details

Category
Object type
Titles
  • Voyage dans la Mer Noire, le Bosphore, la Mer de Marmara & les Dardanelles (assigned by artist)
  • Soujak Bay (Crimée, Mer Noire) (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, with additional colouring by hand
Brief description
Hand-coloured lithograph by Jean Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager entitled 'Soujak Bay (Crimée, Mer Noire), a plate from a set of five from Durand-Brager's, 'Voyage dans la Mer Noire, le Bosphore, la Mer de Marmara & les Dardanelles'. Printed in Paris, 1854.
Physical description
Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, with additional colouring by hand, entitled 'Soujak Bay (Crimée, Mer Noire)'. Lettered with title and 'Voyage Dans La Mer Noire, Le Bosphore Et Les Dardanelles', and variously, 'Dessiné par Durand Brager, Peintre de Marine, attaché à l'escadre Française. Goupil & Ce. Paris, Berlin, New York. E. Gambart & Co. P. & D. Colnaghi London. Imp. Lemercier, Paris.' Numbered with plate number and stamped variously 'Goupil & Cie. Editeurs A Paris'.
Also lettered 'Ville Russe bien fortifiée. Bon mouillage. Town well fortified. Good anchorage. Lithographié par Eug. Cicéri et Ph.Benoist'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 25.4cm
  • Width: 41.3cm
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
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Collection
Accession number
SP.242

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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