Excerpt from original source: "Ponte Piccolo, or the Little Bridge, is an inconsiderable town, pleasantly situated at the head of a salt lake on the borders of the Archipelago, about five leagues to the west of Constantinople. It receives it's name from a stone bridge of thirty-six arches constructed by Solyman II, in the year of the Hegira 974. The lake is of unequal breadth, and about fifteen miles in length, communicating with the sea by a narrow channel, over which the bridge is erected. The town contains a mosque, and five hans or karavansaries, some of them tolerably handsome. This place was known to the ancients by the appellation of Bathinia, or Bathinis, according to Pomponius Mela and the younger Pliny...The group of figures under the tent in the View annexed represents a band of gipsies found in that situation by the artist, exercising the farrier's art."
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Imprint: Published by R. Bowyer, no. 80, Pall Mall, 1809
Excerpt from original source: "Ponte Piccolo, or the Little Bridge, is an inconsiderable town, pleasantly situated at the head of a salt lake on the borders of the Archipelago, about five leagues to the west of Constantinople. It receives it's name from a stone bridge of thirty-six arches constructed by Solyman II, in the year of the Hegira 974. The lake is of unequal breadth, and about fifteen miles in length, communicating with the sea by a narrow channel, over which the bridge is erected. The town contains a mosque, and five hans or karavansaries, some of them tolerably handsome. This place was known to the ancients by the appellation of Bathinia, or Bathinis, according to Pomponius Mela and the younger Pliny...The group of figures under the tent in the View annexed represents a band of gipsies found in that situation by the artist, exercising the farrier's art."
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Imprint: Published by R. Bowyer, no. 80, Pall Mall, 1809
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