Lot 137: Achille Etna Michallon , Paris 1796 - 1822 a castle on the bosphorous Brown wash over pencil on laid paper watermarked:.. ANDERLEY , with original wash-line mount; signed and dated 1816 and inscribed in Polish on the mount

Brown wash over pencil on laid paper watermarked:.. ANDERLEY , with original wash-line mount; signed and dated 1816 and inscribed in Polish on the mount

measurements note 330 by 465 mm

This is one of a series of Turkish views drawn by Michallon for Edouard De Raczynski's volume on Turkey, Dziennik podrozy do Turcyi odbytey w Roku 1814, published in Warsaw in 1821. A version was published in German in 1824.υ1 Another drawing of the Bosphorus from this series was sold New York, Sotheby's, 25 January 2002, lot 115. 1. See L. Navari, Greece and the Levant: the Catalogue of the Henry Myron Blackmer Collection of Books and Manuscripts, London 1989, no. 1375