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Martinus Rørbye: Constantinople. 1836.
Department of Maps, Prints, and Photographs, Udl. top. 2º

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Constantinople seen from the eastern part of town Scutari, now Üsküdar, across the Bosporus Strait. Travel sketch by the Danish painter Martinus Rørbye (1803-1848), who spent the winter 1835-1836 in Greece and Turkey.
Coloured drawing.

27.7 x 42.7 cm.
40 x 57 cm.


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