BALTIMORE (Lord).
A Tour to the East, in the Years 1763 and 1764. With remarks on the City of Constantinople and the Turks. Also Select pieces of Oriental Wit, Poetry and Wisdom.
INCLUDING THE PLATES
BALTIMORE (Lord).
A Tour to the East, in the Years 1763 and 1764. With remarks on the City of Constantinople and the Turks. Also Select pieces of Oriental Wit, Poetry and Wisdom.
Scarce, as only presentation copies were issued with the plates. The engravings depict “The Baker’s Punishment”, “The Audience of the Grand Vizir”, “The Audience of the Grand Segnior” and “The Dance of the Dervisches.”
Baltimore was a controversial figure. Walpole declared that this work “no more deserved to be published than his bills on the road for post-horses.”
Baltimore was involved in a “scandalous trial in which he was accused and acquitted of rape… [and]… the injured damsel published the Memoirs of the Seraglio of the Bashaw of Merryland [so called from the estate Baltimore owned in Maryland] by a ‘Discarded Sultana’ in which Baltimore is described as having ‘imported every species of Asiatic luxury, without consulting his own constitution or the climate of his mother country’.” Sarah Searight, The British in the Middle East, London, 1979, p. 76.
