Original steel engraving with the Tersane mosque, beside the arsenal on the Golden Horn in Istanbul, its stepped domes and the minaret rising above the trees and the battlemented wall of the enclosure. Signed below "Vormser del.", "Lemaitre direxit" and "Cholet sc.", under the lettering "Turquie / Turquia".
Original steel engraving with the Tersane mosque, beside the arsenal on the Golden Horn in Istanbul, its stepped domes and the minaret rising above the trees and the battlemented wall of the enclosure. Signed below "Vormser del.", "Lemaitre direxit" and "Cholet sc.", under the lettering "Turquie / Turquia".
Medium: Steel engraving
Artist / after: Vormser
Engraver / lithographer: Cholet, under the direction of Lemaitre
Date: 19th century
Source: Illustrated French geographical encyclopedia, print no. 50
Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.4 in (20 x 13.8 cm)
Condition: Fair; mounted on paper, with foxing spread through the margins; the image remains clean