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Friday, August 15, 2014
"Shipping on the Bosphorus" 1869
A painting by German artist Franz Hünten (1822–1887), featuring a British Man-of-War (second rate with up to 90 cannons) in the foreground on its way to Constantinople (now Istanbul) with Turkish fishing craft beyond off the coastline of Scutar.
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