Somewhere up on the Bosphorus. What is now Istanbul in Turkey but was then Constantinople and was ruled by the Ottoman Turks. Imagery from the 1840 work “Beauties of the Bosphorus.”Miss Julia Pardoe, author, with engravings after drawings by William Henry Bartlett.

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Court of the mosque of Sultan Achmet. Engraving by S. Fisher after W. H. Bartlett. Page 105 of Miss Julia Pardoe’s Beauties of the Bosphorus, published in London, England in 1840 by George Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/beauties-of-the-bosphorus-the-pardoe-miss-julia-and-bartlett-william-henry_202408/page/n105/mode/1up
Court of the mosque of Eyoub. Engraving by J. Carter after W. H. Bartlett. Page 105 of Miss Julia Pardoe’s Beauties of the Bosphorus, published in London, England in 1840 by George Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/beauties-of-the-bosphorus-the-pardoe-miss-julia-and-bartlett-william-henry_202408/page/n25/mode/1up
Scene from above the new palace of Beshik-Tash. Engraving by R Wallis after W. H. Bartlett. Page 41 of Miss Julia Pardoe’s Beauties of the Bosphorus, published in London, England in 1840 by George Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/beauties-of-the-bosphorus-the-pardoe-miss-julia-and-bartlett-william-henry_202408/page/n41/mode/1up
The Atmeidan or Hippodrome. Engraving by C. K. Richardson after W. H. Bartlett. Page 101 of Miss Julia Pardoe’s Beauties of the Bosphorus, published in London, England in 1840 by George Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/beauties-of-the-bosphorus-the-pardoe-miss-julia-and-bartlett-william-henry_202408/page/n101/mode/1up
Musicians at the Asian Valley of Sweet Waters. Engraving by R. Brandard after W. H. Bartlett. Page 121 of Miss Julia Pardoe’s Beauties of the Bosphorus, published in London, England in 1840 by George Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/beauties-of-the-bosphorus-the-pardoe-miss-julia-and-bartlett-william-henry_202408/page/n121/mode/1up

Very early for this type of work, from right after Victoria became queen. Julia Pardoe wrote at least two other books on Ottoman Turkish topics. She traveled to what is now Turkey in 1835 with her father. Her Wikipedia entry doesn’t say when she left but she died in London, England from insomnia and liver issues in 1862.

Also, I didn’t find this book by myself. Like the last blog post about touring Scotland in 1907, I found it here https://www.kaaterskillbooks.com/ and then found a scanned version on the Internet Archive website.

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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