THOMAS ALLOM Antique Hand Colored Engraving Framed Print (Istanbul Turkey) 18x14

Description: THOMAS ALLOM Antique Hand Colored Engraving Framed Print Istanbul, Turkey Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii) Obelisk of Theodosius (Dikilitas (Hipodrom)) Included in book "Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor" from 1838 Triple Mat Silver Frame Size: 18.5" x 14.5" Like New Condition Please note- any lines you see in the photo are a reflection from the glass on my ceiling- the lines are not in the image About Thomas Allom- Architect, topographical artist, engraver and lithographer. Apprenticed to the architect Francis Goodwin and a student of architecture at the R.A. schools from 1828. A co-founder of the R.I.B.A. who worked with Charles Barry on Highclere and the Houses of Parliament. Travelled widely recording topographical and architectural scenes. He exhibited sixty-five works between 1824 and 1871 at the Society of British Artists and the Royal Academy.But Thomas Allom was not only an exceptional architect. He also made himself a name as topographic illustrator. Allom was traveling since the 1820s to study buildings and monuments on the spot and to document them as illustration for travel guides. First he traveled all over England. Later he extended his journeys to mainland Europe to make drawings of European architecture and cities.In 1834 Thomas Allom came as far as Istanbul in Turkey. He made hundreds of drawings in Anatolia and later in Syria and Palestine. Some of these drawings were published as steel engravings: in 1838 for the book "Constantinople and the Scenery or the Seven Churches of Asia Minor" by Robert Walsh and in 1840 for the book "Character and Costume in Turkey and Italy" by Emily Reeve. The beauty of the steel engravings after his drawings and watercolors is impressive. Allom's love for details raises these works to historic documents of great value. His print works express a sense for picturesque effects, and the play with light and shadow make them look theatrical. "Robert Walsh (1772-1852) was an Irish priest who was resident in Constantinople as a chaplain to Lord Strangford's Embassy from 1821 to 1824 and from 1830 to 1835. Thomas Allom (1804-1872) was a British architect (the church at Highbury as well as Saint Peter's church in Notting Hill are his creations) who abandoned his practice and travelled for nine months (c. 1836-1837) in Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine and Constantinople.R. Walsh and Th. Allom worked together on the publication of a travel album for the Fischer publishing house. Outcome of their collaboration is this two-volume edition, with drawings by Allom, Hervé and others, and accompanying explanatory texts by Walsh. This book enjoys wide circulation to this day and together with Miss Julia Pardoe's work is one of the most characteristic albums of that period, extolling mainly the architectural and natural beauties of the multicultural capital of the Ottoman Empire.The album opens with a thorough historical introduction and a detailed list with information on the emperors and sultans. This is followed by an array of images of monuments (mosques, fountains, cisterns, castles, cemeteries, palaces, etc.), neighbourhoods and scenes from everyday life (public bathhouses, markets, cafés, etc.) in Constantinople, enchanting the reader with their beauty. This city was enhanced in travel works of the nineteenth century, both by captivating descriptions and by pictorial representations in the style of this edition.The work also includes views from Albania, Epirus, Thrace, the Bosporus, Adrianople and Giannena, as well as from the seven cities of Asia Minor (Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyateira, Sardes, Philadelphia and Laodicea). In the last book of the New Testament, the "Revelation of John", written on Patmos around AD 96, these are referred to as the seven early Christian Churches-communities to which this eschatological text is addressed. The "Revelation" was the stimulus of many journeys, not exclusively pilgrimages. From the mid-seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, it occasioned spiritual inquiries and meditations of European travellers intent on visiting these ruins and cities in Asia Minor."Written by Ioli Vingopoulou

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