Kadıköy on the site of Ancient Chacedon.

MELLING, Antoine Ignace "Desiné par Melling. Gravé à l'eau-forte par Dessaulx. Terminé par Duparc." View of the village of Kadıköy located on the site of the ancient town of Chalcedon, opposite Constantinople "Vue de Kadi-Kieuï et Village situé sur l'emplacement de l'ancienne ville de Chalcedoine,vis à vis de Constantinople ." Paris, Strassburg & London Treuttel et Würtz 1819
Large copper engraving of Kadıköy from Antoine Ignace Melling's " Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople et des Rives du Bosphore."Plate 5; black and white.
The plate shows the village of Kadıköy, located on the site of ancient Chalcedon opposite to Constantinople on the shore of the Sea of Marmora, close to the entrance to the Bosphorus; a group of men dance by the shore, in the midground can bee seen the hospital of Scutari, in the distance can be seen the city. It is now a prosperous district of Istanbul

Chalcedon was originally a Megarian colony. Trade throve in Chalcedon, which was a flourishing town containing many temples, including one of Apollo, which had an oracle.
In its early history Chalcedon shared the fortunes of Byzantium. It fell under the repeated attacks of the barbarian hordes who crossed over after having ravaged Byzantium, including some referred to as Scythians who attacked during the reign of Valerian and Gallienus in the mid 3rd century.
Chalcedon suffered from its proximity to the new imperial capital at Constantinople. First the Byzantines and later the Ottoman Turks used it as a quarry for building materials for Constantinople's monumental structures.Chalcedon also fell repeatedly to armies attacking Constantinople from the east. 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. 455 by 715mm (18 by 28¼ inches).   ref: 2391  €1750