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Record Number: ABB0118

Related Work: Count Robert of Paris

Illustration Title/Caption: The Walls of Constantinople / and distant View of the sea of Marmora

Keyword(s): Ruins - Towns & Cities

Artist: Thomas Allom

Engraver: William Forrest

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.5 x 13.3

Date: 1847

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Abbotsford edition] (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1842-47)

Position in Source Text: vol. 12, facing p. 169

Location of Copy: ABD, WS E13, vol. 12

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the city walls of Constantinople (ruins), with the sea of Marmora and a mountain visible in the distance, and several small figures in Arabian dress visible on the lower right.

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