| William Henry
Bartlett, (born in London, 26 March 1809; died at sea off Malta, 13 Sept
1854) was an English draughtsman, active also in the Near East, Continental
Europe and North America. He was a prolific artist and an intrepid traveler.
His work became widely known through numerous engravings after his drawings
published in his own and other writers’ topographical books. His primary
concern was to extract the picturesque aspects of a place and by means of
established pictorial conventions to render ‘lively impressions of actual
sights’, as he wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat (London, 1849). These
are a portion of a series published circa 1840 by G. Virtue, London for
‘The Beauties of the Boshphorus by Miss Pardoe’.. |
