Bir zamanlar Turkiye,Turkey as it was, Carl Gustaf Lowenhielm, A Swedish Diplomat’s Turkish Portfolio in the 1820’s, Introductions: Sture Theolin, Merit Laine. Edited by Engin Yenal. Istanbul: Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, 2003. Oblong folio, 239 p., color ills. In Turkish and English, Hardcover Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm (1790-1838) served as Sweden's ambassador to the Sublime Port between 1824 and 1827. Traveling throughout the Ottoman Empire, he produced about 250 paintings, covering a wide range of themes. This book presents about half of Löwenhielm's pictures, some selected from five sketch books, which are kept in the Uppsala University Library. Paintings kept in the Stockholm Museum of Fine Arts as well as in private collection are also included. Each picture is accompanied with written comments highlighting their documentary as well as artistic value. Through these almost two hundred years old pictures from the Ottoman Empire, now presented for the first time, the reader can catch a unique glimpse of "Turkey, as it was." Product Size: 465 x 320 mm Product Weight: 3750 gr ISBN:975-08-0642-5