Joseph Schranz (Austrian, mid 18th Century)
Joseph Schranz (Austrian, mid 18th Century)

[Le Bosphore:] Vue Gnrale du Bosphore, de Constaninople a Roumeli-Hissari, (Prise d'Asie), Cimetire Turc, Hissari d'Europe & d'Asie, Palais du Sultan, Le marchand de Bonbons, Pririe de Buyuk-Dr, Constantinople, Vue Gnrale de Smyrne, Araba de Constantinople, Derwisches Tourneurs, Ecrivain & Femmes Turcs, and Bachi-Bouzouks

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Joseph Schranz (Austrian, mid 18th Century)
[Le Bosphore:] Vue Gnrale du Bosphore, de Constaninople a Roumeli-Hissari, (Prise d'Asie), Cimetire Turc, Hissari d'Europe & d'Asie, Palais du Sultan, Le marchand de Bonbons, Pririe de Buyuk-Dr, Constantinople, Vue Gnrale de Smyrne, Araba de Constantinople, Derwisches Tourneurs, Ecrivain & Femmes Turcs, and Bachi-Bouzouks
lithographic panaroma on four sheets joined, 7 lithographic views, and 4 lithographic plates of costumes printed two to a sheet, printed in colour and finished by hand, after Schranz, lithographed by L. Sabatier and Schranz and printed by Frick frres in Paris and published in Constantinople by Schranz and Percheron, [c. 1855], here bound together in original cloth, blocked in blind and lettered in gilt.
oblong folio: the panorama 70 x 13 in. (178 x 33.5 cm.); the plates 13 x 18 in. (34 x 46 cm.)
Provenance
Percy S. Easton (signed on verso of upper cover and inscribed 'Bought at Zante, Aug. 20th 1865')
Literature
Blackmer 1505 (panorama); 1508 (variant issue without the Cimetire but with the Scutari); Atabey 1107 (panorama), 1108 (with 14 plates on ten sheets); not in BLC; not in Gennadius Library, Athens

Lot Essay

FIRST EDITION of this stunning panorama, and an early issue of the fine suite of plates. The two were issued separately but they often appear bound together. There are significant differences between the first, printed by Frick frres, and the second edition, printed by Jacomme, suggesting that Schranz may have provided the printers with different drawings of the same scenes. Schranz produced three other panoramas and two further suites of plates, all of which, in the absence of documentation, have been tentatively dated to the mid 1850s.

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