Title

'The Old Walls, Constantinople'

Caption

'The Old Walls, Constantinople', (c4th century), 1890. Defensive stone walls surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople (today Istanbul in Turkey) as the new capital of the Roman Empire by Constantine the Great. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]

Date

1890

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F25_043

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

62,1Mb (2,3Mb) / 13,0in x 18,6in / 3887 x 5580 (300dpi)

Keywords

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