Kefeliköy and part of Büyükdere, on the Bosphorus.

MELLING, Antoine Ignace "Desiné par Melling. Gravé à l'eau-forte par Cardano Terminé par Née" View of Kefeliköy and part of Büyükdere. "Vue de Keffeli-Kieuï et d'une la Partie de Buyuk- dÈrÈ ." Paris, Strassburg & London Treuttel et Würtz 1819
Large copper engraving of Kefeliköy & part of Büyükdere on the shores of the Bosphorus, from Antoine Ignace Melling's " Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople et des Rives du Bosphore."Plate 38; black and white.
The plate shows the shores of the Bosphorus with Kefeliköy and part of Büyükdere, with many small boats on the water. Dark impression; large margins; from an unfolded copy; slight wrinkles to centre of plate; minor chips, and tears to edges of page.

MELLING, Antoine Ignace (1763-1831).

Melling, who was trained in both architecture and painting, went to the city at the age of nineteen as a member of the Russian ambassador's retinue, and remained there for eighteen years. He became architect to Hatice Sultan, Selim III's sister, and the favour of the sultan himself eventually allowed him to study the interior of the Harem and other palaces. He returned to Paris in 1803, but despite producing a prospectus for his work soon afterwards, only began publication in 1809, finally completing it in 1819. The plates include some of the earliest interior views of the harem and the sultan's palaces, besides stunning delineations of the city's skylines, often with members of Ottoman society in the foreground.
Atabey: 798-799; Blackmer /Navari:1105; Brunet: III, 1591; Lipperheide:LB 41. 477 by 730mm (18¾ by 28¾ inches).   ref: 2390  €1500