TURKEY - MELLING - ISTANBUL - "View of AINALI-KAVAK near...

TURKEY - MELLING - ISTANBUL - "View of AINALI-KAVAK near the Arsenal inside the Port of CONSTANTINOPLE." 1819. Etching after Antoine Ignace MELLING (1763–1831). Proof with letter, on vellum paper. Plate from the series "Picturesque Journey through Constantinople and the Shores of the Bosphorus, based on drawings by Mr. Melling, architect to Emperor Selim III, and draftsman to the Sultana Hadidge, his sister." The print depicts the Aïnali-Kavak neighborhood near the naval arsenal, located within the harbor (the Golden Horn) of Constantinople (now Istanbul). Margins. 65 x 100 cm. Condition C (trace of an original vertical center fold reinforced on the reverse, short tears in the margins reinforced on the reverse, slightly and partially sun-faded).