2-701-011 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

Street scene with passers-by including a poor black African woman and child, slave or freed slave, from 'Stamboul, Souvenir de l'Orient', published 1865 (colour litho). Count Amadeo Preziosi (1816-1882) was a Maltese painter known for his watercolours and prints of the Balkans, Ottoman Empire and Romania; 'Stamboul, Souvenir d'Orient' was first published in Paris 1865.