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Summary

English: Ali Pacha's seraglio and tomb, fortress, Janina
Artist
George de la Poer Beresford
Title
English: Ali Pacha's seraglio and tomb, fortress, Janina
Description
English: A book of scenes of Southern Albania by George de la Poer Beresford, with no text other than a table of contents with descriptions of the plates and titles and production details. The individual views of the lithograph as follows: A view of the seraglio and tomb of Ali Pasha with a small mosque by the low wall, another building to the right with Albanian men watching grooms holding horses, two groups of people beyond. [1]


Ali Pasha of Tepelena or of Yannina (Janina, Ioannina), surnamed Aslan, "the Lion", or the "Lion of Yannina" (1740-1822), was a Muslim Albanian ruler who served as an Ottoman pasha of the western part of Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire's European territory, which was referred to as the Pashalik of Yanina. At this time (1855) Janina was the capital of an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. In 1913 it became part of Greece. In the print, on the right, a few guards sit outside Ali Pasha's seraglio in their distinctive costumes. Their horses are shown in the center. The family tomb of Ali Pasha where Ali Pasha's decapitated body (1822) and those of his spouses (Um Gulsum Hanum, 1809) were buried is seen on the left, opposite the seraglio. [2]
Date 1855
date QS:P571,+1855-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium lithograph
medium QS:P186,Q15123870
with tint plate
Dimensions height: 32.1 cm (12.6 in); width: 22.1 cm (8.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,32.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,22.1U174728
Accession number
Wellcome Library no. 2200300i
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References
  • Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 1, no. 46.2
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