CONSTANTINOPLE Golden Horn Bosphorus Turkey

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print Specifics: Type of print: Intaglio (Steel engraving) - Original antique printYear of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1856Artist - Engraver: Jacobs - Prior Publisher: Virtue & Company, London. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 9 x 12.5 inches (23 x 30 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 1-2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNote: (1) Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. (2) The detail of the print is sharper than the photos of the print. Original Narrative: Constantinople, the Golden Horn : CONSTANTINOPLE has within the last two years become almost a household word; not only by every hearth throughout the British empire, but wherever the languages of England and France are spoken. Millions have had their thoughts turned with the deepest anxiety or the utmost interest towards a spot of which few comparatively knew much more than the name; and now its mosques and its minarets, its kiosks, its streets, its harbors, and its suburbs, seem almost as familiar to us as the localities in which we dwell. Dioramas and panoramas, pictures and prints, in short, everything which Art can do, have contributed to show what the metropolis of the Moslemite is. Turkey now forms a large and important page in our history; one too which both we and our children may read with mingled feelings of pride, sorrow, and shame; for over the glory of final victory broods a shadow that obscures our national self-sufficiency, though it cannot dim one spark of the brightness which rests upon the valour, fortitude, and endurance of our countrymen. Under any circumstances, the beautiful picture which is here engraved would find numerous admirers, but as the representation of a place on which our attention has been so long and anxiously fixed, it possesses a double interest. The painter, James Jacobs, is a native of Antwerp; he was born in 1812. A pupil of the Academy of that city, he made his first appearance as an exhibitor by contributing to the salon of Brussels, in 1833, three pictures—" Fishermen Disembarking," " Interior of the Citadel of Antwerp after the Bombardment," during the last revolution, and a " House destroyed by a Bombshell ;" these pictures attracted notice by the vigor of the artist's touch, and the variety and harmony of his coloring. In the Antwerp Exhibition of 1834, and especially in that of Brussels in 1836, these qualities yet more distinguished his works. In the last-named gallery he had three pictures—a " Seashore in Holland," a "Lighthouse," and a "Calm at Sea," the first of these was purchased by the government, and the last by the Prince de Ligne. From that time to the present, Jacobs has devoted himself almost exclusively to marine-painting, or to subjects in which the sea or a navigable river forms a principal feature in the composition. The works of this artist generally show an exuberance of rich and powerful coloring; like our own Danby, he loves to paint the gorgeous tints of sunrise and sunset; his effects are highly poetical, though perhaps sometimes a little overdone. " The truth of his pictures," writes a foreign critic, "is more poetical than real: without this defect, which is no longer one when it is not greatly exaggerated, this painter would be placed in the first rank of the modern Belgian school." This remark, we must however add, was made when Jacobs was comparatively young—study and experience have now "toned down " his flights of poetical fancy; he retains his brilliancy and rich imagination, but restrains them within the limits of probability. About twelve years since he visited the Mediterranean, the Greek Archipelago, and other places in the East; from one of the sketches then made he painted the picture in the Royal Collection—it represents the port of Constantinople, called the " Golden Horn," a safe, capacious, and beautiful harbor which divides the city from Pera: the painter has treated the subject as if every object in it were literally of gold, the whole is lighted up with the deep yellow and crimson tints of an Eastern sunset. In the foreground is a group of picturesque buildings of highly-decorated Saracenic architecture, constituting a wharf where vessels are unloading; this is judiciously balanced on the other side of the composition by several vessels at anchor, whose shadowed sides are opposed to the strong light behind them, while the reflected light of the sun on the water is broken by the figure and the boat, or barge, in the foreground. This picture—a rich and gorgeous piece of painting —was, we believe, purchased of the artist by Prince Albert; it is now in the collection at Osborne. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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