All Resolutions
Called the one thousand and one pillars
Artist
- Name:
- Allom, Thomas
- Dates:
- 1804-1872
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- Buildings & monuments
- Technique:
- Metal engraving
- Engraver:
- Challis, Ebenezer
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- Northeastern University Libraries, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Constantinople: and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor (book)
- Author(s):
- Walsh, Robert
- Publisher:
- London, Paris: Fisher, Son, & Co., n.d. [1839?]
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
View of the Cistern of Philoxenos, also known in Turkey as Binbirdirek Sarnıcı, which literally means the “1001 Column Cistern.” It is located on the European side of Istanbul where it was built in the fifth century and has in reality 224 columns, of which over 20 can be seen on this picture.
Keywords: 1830s, 19th century, black & white, Constantinople: and the scenery..., Istanbul, pillar, reference book, Turkey, underground, Victorian
