H.M.S. Barham Saluting Sultan of Ottoman Empire
Barham saluting the Mahmud II, Sultan of the great Ottoman Empire, in the Bay of Bosporus near Topikapi Palace in 1832. Thomas Waters Sr. was on this voyage and wrote…
Mahmud II, Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1839)
Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Painting by Henry Guillaume Schlesinger now at the Musée de Versailles was made in 1839, just seven years after Thomas Sr. saw him…
The Sultan’s Imperial Caique (1828)
The Sultan’s Imperial Caique from a painting by Charles MacFarlane, "Constantinople in 1828". It is likely the same one that bears the Sultan close to Barham in 1832, and which…