John Frederick Lewis RA, Yeni Jami and St. Sophia from the Golden Horn

Yeni Jami and St. Sophia from the Golden Horn

John Frederick Lewis RA (1804 - 1876)

RA Collection: Art

Title
Yeni Jami and St. Sophia from the Golden Horn
Printmaker
Drawn by
After John Richard Coke Smyth (1808 - 1882)
From
J.F. Lewis, Lewis's Illustrations of Constantinople ... from the original sketches of Coke Smyth, London [1838] (pl. [VIII])
Object type
Print
Medium
Tinted lithograph
Dimensions

287 mm x 388 mm

Collection
Royal Academy of Arts
Object number
05/762
This image is from a book

The practice of perspective; or, an easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art : Applied and exemplified in all the variety of cases; as landskapes, gardens, buildings of divers kinds, their appendages, parts, and furniture. With rules for the proportion of figures, both in draught and relievo. Also the manner of conducting the shadows, produced either by natural or artificial luminaries; and practical methods of drawing after nature, when the process of rules are not understood. A work highly necessary for painters, engravers, architects, embroiderers, statuaries, jewellers, tapestry-workers, and others concerned in designing. The whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty copper-plates Written in French by a Jesuit of Paris; translated by E. Chambers - London: [1781]

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