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Four hand-coloured lithographs of interiors of the mosque, from Aya Sofia Constantinople, as Recently Restored by Order of HM the Sultan Abdul Mejid, by Gaspard Fossati London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1852(4) image 1
Four hand-coloured lithographs of interiors of the mosque, from Aya Sofia Constantinople, as Recently Restored by Order of HM the Sultan Abdul Mejid, by Gaspard Fossati London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1852(4) image 2
Four hand-coloured lithographs of interiors of the mosque, from Aya Sofia Constantinople, as Recently Restored by Order of HM the Sultan Abdul Mejid, by Gaspard Fossati London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1852(4) image 3
Four hand-coloured lithographs of interiors of the mosque, from Aya Sofia Constantinople, as Recently Restored by Order of HM the Sultan Abdul Mejid, by Gaspard Fossati London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1852(4) image 4
Four hand-coloured lithographs of interiors of the mosque, from Aya Sofia Constantinople, as Recently Restored by Order of HM the Sultan Abdul Mejid, by Gaspard Fossati London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1852(4) image 5
Four hand-coloured lithographs of interiors of the mosque, from Aya Sofia Constantinople, as Recently Restored by Order of HM the Sultan Abdul Mejid, by Gaspard Fossati London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1852(4) image 6
Four hand-coloured lithographs of interiors of the mosque, from Aya Sofia Constantinople, as Recently Restored by Order of HM the Sultan Abdul Mejid, by Gaspard Fossati London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1852(4) image 7
Four hand-coloured lithographs of interiors of the mosque, from Aya Sofia Constantinople, as Recently Restored by Order of HM the Sultan Abdul Mejid, by Gaspard Fossati London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1852(4) image 8
Lot 74*

Four hand-coloured lithographs of interiors of the mosque, from Aya Sofia Constantinople, as Recently Restored by Order of HM the Sultan Abdul Mejid, by Gaspard Fossati
London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1852
(4)

Islamic and Indian Art
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Four hand-coloured lithographs of interiors of the mosque, from Aya Sofia Constantinople, as Recently Restored by Order of HM the Sultan Abdul Mejid, by Gaspard Fossati
London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1852

four hand-coloured lithographs, from the original album of 25 plates, framed to borders of illustrations, in modern gilt frames in North African style with Arabic pseudo-inscriptions
360 x 255 mm. (sight); frames 58 x 47 cm.(4)

Footnotes

The original work was the first modern account of Aya Sofia, with the text in French edited by Adalbert de Beaumont from Fossati's original notes. Fossati (1809-93) travelled to Constantinople in 1837, in the employ of the Russian court as an architect, and entered the Sultan's service in 1845. In 1847 he was commissioned to restore the Aya Sofia, in the course of which architectural work he uncovered mosaics. These were, however, covered up, and his intended work illustrating these never appeared.

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