ORIGINAL RUSKIN DRAWING RUSKIN (John, 1819-1900, Writer and Critic)

Very fine original pencil sketch of the Underground Bascilica Cistern in Istanbul, signed and dated, showing the arched pillars standing in the water with decorated Byzantine columns with foliage growing around them, 7¾" x 7½", no place but Istanbul,

The Underground Bascilica Cistern (or Yerebatan Sarayi in Turkish, meaning 'Sunken Palace') is a great underground chamber used in times of siege and is the largest and most beautiful Byzantine cistern of its kind of several hundred lying under the city of Istanbul.

Item Date:  1884

Stock No:  41229      £3750

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