Folio: Turkish Mosque

1996.26.0037

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Artifact Identification Folio: Turkish Mosque   (1996.26.0037)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
  2. :
  3. Documentary Artifacts
  4. :
  5. Other Documents
Artist/Maker White: Engraver from George Henry Millar's "New Complete Universal System of Geography" Printed for Alex Hogg, London
Geographic Location
Period N/A
Date 1790 CE
Culture British, English

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Width) 37.1 cm
Dimension 2 (Height) 22.2 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) <0.1 cm
Weight 7 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials paper, pigment--ink
Manufacturing Processes Printed, Engraved

Research Remarks

Description

Engraving - Image printed on one side. English caption below image reads, "View of a Turkish Mosque on the River Peneus, with a Distant Prospect of the City of Larissa." Folio appears to have been cut from a book.

Published Description Under Review
Bibliography

Millar, George Henry. "The New and Universal System of Geography." London: Printed for Alex Hogg, 1782.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24651385M/The_new_and_universal_system_of_geography

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication The Seymour and Muriel Yale Collection of Coins of the Ottoman Empire and Other Middle East States
Reproduction No

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