drawing
- Museum number
- 2012,5001.408
- Description
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View of the Hippodrome, with the Sultan Ahmet mosque behind the Egyptian Obelisk, and Haghia Sophia in the background on the left, Constantinople (Istanbul)
Graphite
- Production date
- 1810
- Dimensions
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Height: 272 millimetres
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Width: 416 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This drawing is a copy from a watercolour, by an anonymous Greek artist, commissioned by Stratford Canning . The watercolour is now in the V&A (D.141-1895)
Samuel Pepys Cockerell (ed.), 'Travels in Southern Europe and the Levant, 1810-1817. The Journal of C. R. Cockerell, R.A.' (1903, Reprinted 1999), p.14 and p.18
'...Mr. Canning, of whose kindness on all occasions I cannot speak too highly, has obliged me exceedingly in lending me a large collection of fairly faithful drawings of the interiors of mosques, some of them never drawn before, as well as other curious buildings here, made by a Greek of this place. In copying them I have been closely employed, as when Mr. Adair leaves, which will be shortly , they will be sent off to England...I have made several useful friends. One is a brother artist, the Greek who did the mosques for Canning. We have paid each other several visits, and become fairly intimate by dint of dragoman, mutual admiration, and what was a superb present for me, a little Indian ink and two English pencils. He has been specially attentive in his visits here, hoping, as he confessed, to find out some secret in the art from such a connoisseur as myself...'
C. A. Hutton, 'A Collection of Sketches by C. R. Cockerell, R. A.', JHS 29 (1909), pp. 53-59.
David Watkin, 'The Life and Work of C. R. Cockerell', (London 1974).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1908
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2012,5001.408