Panorama, Birmingham

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Panorama, Birmingham
A wash and ink sketch partly showing the Birmingham panorama with contemporary manuscript title on the reverse Christ Church, corner of New Street, Birmingham, c. 1815; a handbill with printed title Panorama, New-Street, Birmingham. City of Constantinople. This painting represents Constantinople...taken from the Tower of Leander and credit Printed by J. Adlard, Duke Street, Smithfield, 1806 -- 8 x 11 inches (20 x 34cm. approx.)

Literature

Ralph Hyde (1988), Panoramania!, p. 58.

Lot Essay

Barker's Panorama in New Street, Birmingham, exhibited panoramas from the Leicester Square and Strand, London, panoramas, run by Robert Barker and Thomas Edward Barker respectively.

The key to the panorama almost certainly relates to Henry Aston Barker's Panorama of Constantinople and Environs which was prepared from his excursion to Turkey in 1799 and exhibited in the Upper Circle from 23 November 1801 to 14 May 1803 and later in Edinburgh and Birmingham.

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