Trabzon (Trebizond), Turkey: the coast with fishermen. Colour lithograph by R. M. Bryson, 1856, after O. Brierly.

A view from the sea towards the coast of Trabzon. On the Black Sea are fishing boats full of sailors wearing northern clothes, and merchant ships. Behind the town, the rugged terrain of the Kaçkar Mountains is seen

Trabzon (Trebizond) is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. It was the centre of an international trade route to Iran in the southeast and the Caucasus to the northeast. Venetian and Genoese merchants traded silk, linen and woollen fabric there, and the Republic of Genoa had a merchant colony within the city (Leonkastron)

London (13 & 14, Pall Mall East) : Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & C.o, Publishers to Her Majesty ; Paris : Déposé Goupil & C.ie ; Leipzig : Otto Weigel, April 1st. 1856.

1 print : lithograph, with tint stones ; image 24 x 41.2 cm.

Trebizond. O.W. Brierly, del. R.M. Bryson, lith.

Wellcome Collection 2150239i

"Brierly was one of the earliest naval war artists commissioned by a newspaper. In 1855 he accompanied Keppel, in HMS Rodney, to the Black Sea and Sea of Azov; during this voyage he was often under enemy fire, and was subsequently awarded the Baltic and Crimean medals."--Oxford dictionary of national biography