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Amedeo Preziosi: The Allied Fleets Anchored in the Bosphorus   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Amedeo Preziosi  (1816–1882)  wikidata:Q3675462
 
Amedeo Preziosi
Alternative names
Amadeo Preziosi
Description Maltese painter
Date of birth/death 2 December 1816 Edit this at Wikidata 27 September 1882 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Malta Yeşilköy
Work location
English: Romania, Balkans, Turkey
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q3675462
Title
The Allied Fleets Anchored in the Bosphorus
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: The allied fleets anchored in the Bosphorus, 1853

signed 'Preziosi' and dated 1854.

Signed and dated 1854, this panorama of British warships lying at anchor in the Bosphorus can be dated more correctly to the final months of 1853, just prior to the period before the fleet entered the Black Sea on 3rd January (1854) and the subsequent formal declaration of War three months later. The animosity between Turkey and Russia had been worsening throughout 1853 to the extent that Britain and France, having agreed to support Turkey in the event of hostilities, had each sent fleets to the Eastern Mediterranean that summer. As the international situation deteriorated, the British fleet entered the Bosphorus on 30 October and remained there for two months awaiting developments. The fleet initially consisted of ten ships-of-the-line "Agamemnon", "Albion", "Bellerophon", "London", "Queen", "Rodney", "Sans Pareil", "Trafalgar", and, "Vengeance" accompanied by various small vessels, mostly frigates, and led by the huge 120-gun flagship "Britannia".
Depicted place Bosporus
Date 1854
date QS:P571,+1854-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium watercolor over pencil heightened with white
Dimensions height: 63.5 cm (25 in); width: 96.5 cm (37.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,63.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,96.5U174728
Source/Photographer https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/vittorio-amadeo-5th-count-preziosi-maltese-1816-1-87-c-sjykd6rtp3
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