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| Keywords: Fort Arabat.jpg en Subscription edition tinted lithograph mounted on card and hand coloured Image 185 x 280mm 7¼ x 11 Fine colour The Arabat Spit between Sivash and the Sea of Azov is a long narrow strip of land with this 17th sentury Turkish fort dominating the landscape From the subscription edition of Bossoli's Beautiful Scenery and Chief Places of Interest throughout the Crimea a work with considerable ethnographic and geographic interest especially in their depictions of Tartar life Carlo Bossoli 1815-84 visited the Crimea several times between 1828 and 1843 most extensively from 1840 to 1842 When the Crimean War started Bossoli moved to London to capitalise on the heightened interest in his work even selling paintings to Queen Victoria Abbey Travel 239 http //www grosvenorprints com/jpegs/17047 jpg Creator Carlo Bossoli 1856 PD-old-100 PD-US Crimea in art Carlo Bossoli 1856 paintings Crimean Tatars Arabat Fortress PD-old-100 | ||||
