Historical · Smyrna, now İzmir, Türkiye
Golden-Hour Harbour and Hilltop Fortress
Mediterranean sailing craft cross the harbour at Smyrna beneath a hilltop fortress.
View full size Traditional Mediterranean sailing craft cross the harbour beneath a hilltop fortress and a densely populated waterfront.
The artwork evokes the great trading ports of the eastern Mediterranean, combining maritime history, ancient architecture and dramatic evening light.
This is an artistic interpretation of the engraved view, not a geographically exact reconstruction of the place.
- Historical source
- A nineteenth-century view of Smyrna
- Place
- Smyrna, now İzmir, Türkiye
- Original engraving
- Smyrna
- Original artist
- E. Duncan
- Engraver
- A. Willmore
- From
- The Comprehensive Family Bible, Blackie & Son
- Canvas format
- Landscape · 3:2
THEN AND NOW
Two centuries
of image-making.
The original engraving, photographed from the family Bible, beside the contemporary colour interpretation it inspired.
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BRING IT HOME
A canvas
for your wall.
Each artwork is printed to order in Australia as a large-format canvas, at its own proportions. Nothing is cropped to fit a standard frame.
- Format
- Landscape · 3:2
- Artwork
- BIB-ART-002
SIZE
FINISH
An 8 mm frame with a 12 mm gap around the canvas.
FLOATING FRAME
- This canvas
- $595.00
- You pay
- $595.00
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Contemporary AI-assisted artwork inspired by an original nineteenth-century engraving from The Comprehensive Family Bible, published by Blackie & Son.