ASIA MINOR

Artist: Drawn and Engraved by RR Davies

Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving

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AN ANTIQUE STEEL ENGRAVING MADE IN THE LATE 1830s!

VERY OLD WORLD! INCREDIBLE DETAIL!

FROM THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: Anatolia, also called Asia Minor, is a region of Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey. Because of its strategic location at the intersection of Asia and Europe, Anatolia has been a cradle for several civilizations since prehistoric ages, with early settlements such as Catalhoyuk. Major civilizations that have been located on Anatolia include the Hittites, Phrygians, Cimmerians, Lydians, Greek, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Seljuk Turks and Ottoman Empire.

In ancient times most Eastern and Western civilizations intersected in Asia Minor, for it was connected with Mesopotamia by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and with Greece by the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. The Hittites established the first major civilization in Asia Minor about 1800 BC Beginning in the 8th cent. BC Greek colonies were established on the coast lands, and the Greeks thus came into contact with Lydia, Phrygia, and Troy. The conquest (6th cent. BC) of Asia Minor by the Persians led to the Persian Wars. Alexander the Great incorporated the region into his empire, and after his death it was divided into small states ruled by various Diadochi (rulers). It was reunified (2d cent. BC) by the Romans. After AD 395 the country was re-Hellenized and became part of the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine Empire . It was prosperous until the early part of the 6th cent. when it was successively invaded by the Persians (616-26), Arabs (668), Seljuk Turks (1061), and Mongols (1243). The Mongols obliterated almost all traces of Hellenic civilization. Asia Minor was then gradually (13th-15th cent.) conquered by the Ottoman Turks. It remained part of the Ottoman Empire until the establishment of the Republic of Turkey after World War I.

PRINT DATE: This lithograph was printed in the late 1830s; it is not a modern reproduction in any way.

PRINT SIZE: 7 inches by 10 inches including white border of approximately one inch on each side (not shown in scan).

PRINT CONDITION: Condition is fine. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse.

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Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, heliogravure, lithograph, print, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, NOT blocks of steel or wood. "ENGRAVINGS", the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or "engravings" were inserted into the book with a tissue guard frontis, usually on much thicker quality rag stock paper, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone prints. So this auction is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper.  

EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS EXCELLENT CONDITION!