Janina, Albania (subsequently Greece): the audience chamber of Ali Pasha. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855.

  • Beresford, G. de la Poer (George de la Poer)
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[1855]
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2200301i
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Janina, Albania (subsequently Greece): the audience chamber of Ali Pasha. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Ali Pasha of Tepelena or of Yannina (Janina, Ioannina), surnamed Aslan, "the Lion", or the "Lion of Yannina" (1740-1822), was a Muslim Albanian ruler who served as an Ottoman pasha of the western part of Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire's European territory, which was referred to as the Pashalik of Yanina

At this time (1855) Janina was the capital of an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. In 1913 it became part of Greece. In the print, the audience chamber of the pasha is seen on a very bright day. A man (or Ali Pasha if this is a reconstruction of a past scene) sits on a divan (sedir) and meets with one of his visitors at the corner of the saloon, while others wait in a queue to speak to him. The ceiling is elaborately ornamented with scrollwork mouldings

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[London] : Day & Son lith.rs to The Queen, [1855]

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1 print : lithograph with tint plate ; image 22.2 x 31.9 cm

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Audience chamber of Ali Pacha. G. D. Beresford, del.

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 1, no. 46.3

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Wellcome Collection 2200301i

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