Beauties Of The Bosphorus
Print
1838-40 (published)
1838-40 (published)
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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).
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Title | Beauties 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). |
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Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
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Accession number | SP.444:17 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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