GUDENUS

VUE DE SCUTARI, DOLMA = BAGTCHE et TOP = HANA FAUXBOURGS DE CONSTANTINOPLE

Philipp Franz GUDENUS

1740

30 x 39 cm.

Original hand-painted foil engraving of Istanbul titled ‘VUE DE LA VILLE DE CONSTANTINOPLE’, painted by Philipp Franz Gudenus and engraved by Johann Gottfried Thelott, circa 1740. Very rare…

An 18th-century panorama of Istanbul in the collection of maps and manuscripts at the Royal Swedish Library, which was only unearthed in 1963. It is a panorama of Üsküdar (Scutari) and Pera on the Asian coast of the walled Ottoman capital, 3.74 m long and 30 cm high, consisting of 10 foils, depicting the slopes of Galata from Pera.

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The position in which the panorama is drawn – from the artist’s point of view; It is the roof of the Swedish embassy residence, which was built in the style of the classical Swedish Palace. In the notes dated February 14, 1741, Philipp Franz Gudenus, who was in Istanbul as a military painter working at the Austrian Embassy between August 11, 1740 and May 4, 1741, it is claimed that he was drawn from his visits to the residence of the Swedish Embassy, from the roof of the Embassy residence, probably in a period between these dates.

An 18th-century panorama of Istanbul in the collection of maps and manuscripts at the Royal Swedish Library, which was only unearthed in 1963. It is a panorama of 3.74m long and 30 cm high, consisting of 10 foils, depicting the slopes of Galata from Üsküdar (Scutari) and Pera on the Asian coast of the walled Ottoman capital. General information about the engravings included in the panorama can be found in the work itself: hand-painted engravings, all titles in a similar order, but by different people.

Referans: Maximilian HARTMUTH…