GREECE View of Rhodes - 1854 Antique Print by BARTLETT

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Rhodes Another Fine Quality Print from Martin2001 Print Specifics: Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique printYear of printing: not indicated in the print - actual: 1854 Artist: Bartlett - Publisher: Longman Brown Green & Company Condition: 1-2 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Light brownish tint in the blank margins. Dimensions: 8 x 10.5 inches, 20 x 26.5 cm, including blank margins around the image. Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNote: 1. Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is much harper than the photo of the print. Original Narrative: THE first thing that strikes the attention of a spectator from a vessel approaching the town of Rhodes, while the town itself is still concealed for a while by a. projecting cape, is a plain covered with, fourteen windmills. On a nearer approach, the castle and the fortifications come into the view with a pleasing suddenness. The port is seen to be divided into two parts by a mole projected from the town, at the extremity of which, upon the solid rock, is a massive square tower, surmounted by a large octagonal and two small circular turrets, whose style of architecture points it out as a work of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, in the fifteenth century. Their arms, indeed, appear on it, and the cross of the order is everywhere conspicuously displayed. This is the famous tower or castle of St. Nicholas, which makes so large a figure in the history of the exploits of the knights at Rhodes, as the castle of St. Elmo, similarly situated, does in the history of their great acts at Malta, to which they retired when expelled from Rhodes by the sultan Solyman. Behind this the city appears, with its minarets, domes, and houses; while on one side, unique and solitary, stands the castle, a grand and gloomy structure. The entrance to the other division of the port is partly, closed by two moles extended from the two towers that flank it, approaching each other towards the center, and leaving a narrow channel for the ingress and egress of vessels. It is this channel which some suppose to have been bestrode by the celebrated colossus, whose feet is assumed to have rested on the extremities of these moles where they approach each other. But the exact site of the colossus is still an unsettled point. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any map purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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