[Turkish Dresses]
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2452
Imprint
[London:]: , 1769.
Physical Description
[28] pl. (4 dble.); 436 mm. (first 4 pl.); 339 mm. (last 24 pl.). (Broadsheet)
Responsibility Note
All plates except the first are signed as painted by Franco. Smith, and engraved by I. Bayly, R. Pranker, T. White, J. Caldwal, M. Liart, G. Vitalba, P. Mazell or W. Byrne.
Summary Note
There is no title-page or title-plate. The work is listed in the 1802 catalogue of the library of the Royal Academy as 'Smith's Turkish Dresses'. Publication-dates of 1768 or 1769 are carried by all plates, except the first (a map of Constantinople), which carries the date 1767.
All plates except the first are captioned as engraved from the collection of Lord Baltimore.
The painter, Francis Smith, spent his early life in Naples. From 1763 he travelled with Lord Baltimore in Turkey, Greece and Poland, making the drawings which form the basis of the present publication. (By 1768 he was in London, and he exhibited with the Royal Academy between 1770 and 1773.)
All plates except the first are captioned as engraved from the collection of Lord Baltimore.
The painter, Francis Smith, spent his early life in Naples. From 1763 he travelled with Lord Baltimore in Turkey, Greece and Poland, making the drawings which form the basis of the present publication. (By 1768 he was in London, and he exhibited with the Royal Academy between 1770 and 1773.)
Provenance
Acquired by 1802. Recorded in Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
Binding Note
20th-century half calf; 19th-century brown cloth-covered boards. Spine lettered, 'Smith's Turkish Dresses'.
Name as Subject
Subject
Costume - Dress - Turkey - Istanbul - Social life and customs - History - 18th century
Collections - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century
Collections - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century
Contributors
Francis Smith, source artist
I. Bayly, engraver
Robert Pranker, engraver
Thomas White, engraver
James Caldwall, engraver
Mathieu Liart, engraver
Giovanni Vitalba, engraver
Peter Mazell, engraver
William Byrne, engraver
I. Bayly, engraver
Robert Pranker, engraver
Thomas White, engraver
James Caldwall, engraver
Mathieu Liart, engraver
Giovanni Vitalba, engraver
Peter Mazell, engraver
William Byrne, engraver
