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Prospectus Constantinopolis / Veduta di Costantinopoli / Vue de Constantinople / Gesicht von Constantinopel (Constantinopla). Munique, c. 1720–1730. - [OTTOMAN EMPIRE — CONSTANTINOPLE]. Prospectus CONSTANTINOPOLIS vel BYZANTIUM… / Veduta di COSTANTINOPOLI… / Vue de CONSTANTINOPLE… / Gesicht von CONSTANTINOPEL… Heirs of Marcus Abraham REMSHARD (engravers & publishers). [Monachii (Munich), c. 1720–1730]. Hand-coloured copper engraving; 310 × 440 mm (sheet). Trimmed at the lower margin, with partial loss of captions and plate number. Decorative panorama of Constantinople with the Bosporus and Golden Horn lively with shipping; the skyline bristles with domes and minarets (including the prominent mass of Hagia Sophia ), before the city walls and suburbs. Foreground hillside with costumed figures . The quadrilingual caption (Latin/Italian/French/German) is characteristic of the series issued by the Heirs of Marcus Abraham Remshard — the same workshop as your Rome view on the previous lot.