View Of The Dardanelles. Town Of Chanak Kalipi - Asiatic Turkey Wrench William H.

Watercolour and pencil on paper, measuring 254 by 354mm. A little dusty and a few tiny stains, colour remains bright. Captioned in pencil to an old mount from which the watercolour has become detached. ?Town of Chanak Kalipi - Asiatic Turkey?, n.d. but A slightly naive but charming watercolour looking out across the Dardanelles from the Asiatic side. Painted by the British diplomat William H. Wrench, it appears to show Çanakkale bathed in evening light, framed by a foreground scene of men traversing a path leading down to the town. Wrench served at the British Embassy in Constantinople (Istanbul) for the last three decades of the nineteenth century, firstly as Vice-Consul, then Acting Consul-General. We cannot locate any other examples of his work.