Property of a gentleman
Panorama of Constantinople from a Minaret of Haghia Sofia
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a gentleman
Giuseppe Fossati
(Ticino 1822 - 1891)
Panorama of Constantinople from a Minaret of Haghia Sofia
Watercolour on joined sheets
270 by 1435 mm
The estate of the artist,
thence by descent in the Fossati family until at least 1937 (based on an inscription on the reverse by Sandra Fossati, dated Torino 24 ottobre 1937);
Tito Lacchia (apreeminent architectural historian of the inter-war period), Rome by circa 1937,
from whose descendants acquired by the present owner
T. Lacchia, I Fossati Architetti del Sultano di Turchia, Edizione del giornale di politica e letteratura Roma, Rome, 1943, pp. 23-25 and 60-61
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