Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique print
- Year of printing: 1839
- Original artist: W.H. Bartlett
- Engraver: Griffiths
- Publisher: London, Geo. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Dimensions: 8 x 10.5 inches, including blank margins (borders) around the image.
- Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
Notes:
- Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed.
- 1 inch = 2,54 cm.
An excerpt from the description that accompanied the print:
- THE fountains of Constantinople and its
environs are all more or less elegant; and among the most beautiful, both
as regards architecture and ornament, may be classed the subject of the
present sketch, which occupies the centre of a small square, at the foot
of the steep ascent leading up from the merchant- suburb of Galata to the
" Infidel Hill" of Pera. Its form is singularly graceful and well-proportioned;
and as the hand of innovation has not yet touched its massive and deeply-projecting
cornice, it is perhaps as correct a specimen of the pure Moorish style
as any now existing in the city. Four small domes compose the roof; and
they are circled by a net- work of clentated sculpture, which gives them
a light and pretty appearance, and relieves the eye as it glances upward
from the face of the fountain, which is beautifully and profusely painted
in arabesques, as well as the wide and undulating cornice at the base of
the domes. Five slender pillars of white marble divide the bayed front
of the building into four equal compartments, which are screened to about
midway of its height by a gilded lattice-work, behind whose protecting
shadow stands a range of brass vessels, occupying the lip of a reservoir
containing a constant supply of cool water for the use of the thirsty passenger;
while on either side of this, the principal face of the fountain, stretch
two receding wings, where exterior basins, fed with a flow of water which
rarely fails in its volume, offer a constant and abundant mean of comfort
and cleanliness to the immediate neighbourhood.
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