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Carl Peter von Heidenstam was born at Smyrna 1792, son of the Swedish minister at Constantinople.
He served with the French, became Persian colonel and was attached to the Swedish Embassy at
Constantinople 1818-24, later Swedish consul in Greece where he died in 1878.
He published travel reports and novels in French. The Royal Library preserves a manuscript travel diary with 24 watercolours of Turkish and Persian folk types and costumes, furthermore 8 watercolours from Constantinople and Alexandria. |
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| The Hippodrome and "La Mosque de Sulimaniè", i.e. Sultan Ahmet mosque
(Blue mosque). "Vue de l'Ipo-dromos ou At meidan et de la Mosque de Sulimaniè. C. de H." - 20 x 31 cm. |
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| Folklife outside Sultan Selim mosque. "Vue de la Place et fontaine de Top-Kanna; maison de Top-chi Bachi; (général en chef de l'artillerie) et de la Mosquèe Sélimie." - 36 x 52 cm. |
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| The Sultan rides to the mosque. "Le Grand-Seigneur se rendant à la mosquèe." - 38 x 50 cm. |
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| View of Rumeli and Anadolu Hissar at the Bosphorus with the Sultan's boats on their
way to his summer palace. "Vue du chauteaux sur le Bosphore appellés Hissar et du Bateaux du Grand-Seigneur se rendant au Kiosque." - 35 x 53 cm. |
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| View of the summer residences of the foreign ambassadors at Büyükdere on the Bosphorus.
"Vue de Bujukdèrè sur le Bosphore, séjour des Ministres Etranges pendant l'été. C. de H. 1821." - 20 x 39 cm. |
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| Two Europeans are being rowed past Büyükdere and Justinian's aqueduct 1821.
"Vue de la prairie de Bujukderè et des Aqueducs de Justinien." - 28 x 41 cm. |
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| The Dardanelles. "Vue de la ville des Dardanelles et du chateau situé où étoit Abidos sur l'Hellespont." - 23 x 32 cm. |
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| Climbing Pompey's column at Alexandria in Egypt. 1819. - 32 x 23 cm.
Literature: Arne, T.J., Svenskarna och Österlandet. Stockholm 1952. |