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Images of the Ottoman Empire / Charles Newton ; introduction by Tim Stanley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newton, Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Pictorial works.
- Turkey.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : V&A ; New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, 2007.
- Summary:
- In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire was one of the worlds great powers. Generations of travelersexplorers, traders, tourists, scientists, artistswere drawn to these magical lands. Whether depictions of contemporary life in the bustling street, the court, the harem, or elegiac evocations of the ruins of antiquity, the hundred images selected here by artists from David Roberts and Edward Lear to John Frederick Lewis bring a largely vanished world vividly to life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 126) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781851775057
- 1851775056
- OCLC:
- 80332690
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