Chourchid Pacha. Seraskire of Rhumeli, late commander of the Blockade of Missolonghi.This print forms one of the Series of Greek Portraits (3.d. part) now in course of Publication in London & Paris, 1827 by A. Friedel, & sold by the Principal Book and Printsellers in Town & Country.
Bouvier Lithog.
[London & Paris: A. Friedel, 1827-29.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 360 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"). Right edge chipped.
Fine profile portrait of Chourchid Pasha, one of the ablest generals to be employed against the Greek rebels by the Ottoman Sultan during the Greek War of Independence, defeating the Greeks at Corinth. Adam Friedel was a Danish-born painter and lithographic printer, publisher of a series of coloured lithographs of the Greek Revolution under the title 'Twenty-Four Portraits of the principal leaders and personages who have made themselves most conspicuous in the Greek Revolution'.
[Ref: 41849] £230.00
[London & Paris: A. Friedel, 1827-29.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 360 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"). Right edge chipped.
Fine profile portrait of Chourchid Pasha, one of the ablest generals to be employed against the Greek rebels by the Ottoman Sultan during the Greek War of Independence, defeating the Greeks at Corinth. Adam Friedel was a Danish-born painter and lithographic printer, publisher of a series of coloured lithographs of the Greek Revolution under the title 'Twenty-Four Portraits of the principal leaders and personages who have made themselves most conspicuous in the Greek Revolution'.
[Ref: 41849] £230.00