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MOSQUE OF SULTANA VALIDE.
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The interior of these interesting dwellings is generally fitted up with much
taste, and always with a careful regard to cheerfulness. The walls are painted
in frescoes, with landscapes, fruits, or flowers; and the ceilings are always
beautifully ornamented. In short, they are as fanciful, and almost as frail,
as fairy-palaces.
MOSQUE OF SULTANA VALIDE,
FROM THE PORT.
" Look on this picture, and on this;
A miniature resemblance."
Shakspeare.
The handsome court of the Mosque of Yeni Djami has been already
described, but the whole effect of the edifice from the water is too striking to
be neglected by the artist.
The white and dazzling marble of which it is built, its slender and highly'
ornamented minarets, its stately portal, and solemn stillness, are brought out
in such fine relief against the dark and dingy buildings which cumber the port,
and which are loud with industry and contention—that while the mere traveller
involuntarily wishes to transport the gleaming temple to a more consistent locality,
the painter forgets the turmoil, the filth, and the uproar amid which he gazes
on it, in his anxiety to transfer to the pages of his sketch-book so beautiful
an object.
The Mosque of the Sultana Valide stands almost on the edge of the port,
from which its court is only separated by the Balook, or Fish Bazar; and this
point being the ferry between Galata and Stamboul, is constantly thronged with
boats. And here it is that almost every Frank first lands in the " City of the
Faithful." The scene is a singular one to the western traveller; and the noise
and bustle of the busy crowd are totally at variance with all his preconceived
ideas of the grave and turbaned easterns. The sharp shrill voice of the irritable
and loquacious Greek, the expostulatory vehemence of the angry Armenian,
the solemn intonations of the stately Turk, the hurried greetings of the merchants
passing to and from the bazars, and the vociferous appeals of the rival boatmen
43
The interior of these interesting dwellings is generally fitted up with much
taste, and always with a careful regard to cheerfulness. The walls are painted
in frescoes, with landscapes, fruits, or flowers; and the ceilings are always
beautifully ornamented. In short, they are as fanciful, and almost as frail,
as fairy-palaces.
MOSQUE OF SULTANA VALIDE,
FROM THE PORT.
" Look on this picture, and on this;
A miniature resemblance."
Shakspeare.
The handsome court of the Mosque of Yeni Djami has been already
described, but the whole effect of the edifice from the water is too striking to
be neglected by the artist.
The white and dazzling marble of which it is built, its slender and highly'
ornamented minarets, its stately portal, and solemn stillness, are brought out
in such fine relief against the dark and dingy buildings which cumber the port,
and which are loud with industry and contention—that while the mere traveller
involuntarily wishes to transport the gleaming temple to a more consistent locality,
the painter forgets the turmoil, the filth, and the uproar amid which he gazes
on it, in his anxiety to transfer to the pages of his sketch-book so beautiful
an object.
The Mosque of the Sultana Valide stands almost on the edge of the port,
from which its court is only separated by the Balook, or Fish Bazar; and this
point being the ferry between Galata and Stamboul, is constantly thronged with
boats. And here it is that almost every Frank first lands in the " City of the
Faithful." The scene is a singular one to the western traveller; and the noise
and bustle of the busy crowd are totally at variance with all his preconceived
ideas of the grave and turbaned easterns. The sharp shrill voice of the irritable
and loquacious Greek, the expostulatory vehemence of the angry Armenian,
the solemn intonations of the stately Turk, the hurried greetings of the merchants
passing to and from the bazars, and the vociferous appeals of the rival boatmen