c1923
177x215cm, colour woodcut by Yoshijiro Urushibara from Brangwyn sketch. Usually printed in monochrome greys and greens, with added watercolour or chalk on some prints.
Inscription: no seal or printed inscription
Edition: 500 since included in Zwanzig Graphische Arbeiten.
Owners: Bangor (part of 759.2BRA 160935). Bewdley. Bruges (0.1/156), three copies, all signed, Brangwyn gifts. FRSM (S2003.8.3208), 447/500. London V&A (CIRC.26-1922). London WMG (Br P 80) and (BR P 81). Milwaukee Art Museum (M1943.248). San Francisco (1963.30.13793), Achenbach Foundation.
Literature: Gillow, 1974, p55-56. Marechal, 1987, p284.
Illustrated: Marechal, 1987, p284. Yates, 2006, p20.
Exhibited: Lonodn WMG, 2007 (Br P 80)
Line of trees in the foreground, windswept to the left and quite low at the rtight of the print, but filling the page on the left, with scattered figures under the trees, and the mosque background right.
The sixteenth century Suleymaniye Mosque, built by and named after Sultan Suleyman, was designed by the architect Mimar Sinan.