1841
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Interior of the Tomb of Sultan Mehmet I, Bursa is a 1841 watercolor by John Frederick Lewis, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows the inside of a historic tomb. It’s done in the 1800s by a British artist who traveled the Ottoman world. The scene includes tiles and draped silk shawls around a tomb. Lewis sketched this during a long trip from Rome to Egypt. He stopped in Bursa, a former Ottoman capital. The tomb belongs to Sultan Mehmet I, who ruled in the early 1400s. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The watercolour depicts the interior of the Yesil Türbe, the Green Tomb of Sultan Mehmet I in Bursa, featuring the tomb draped in rich silk shawls and an intricately tiled mihrab. The scene captures the early Ottoman architectural style within a complex that included a mosque and Quran school. A figure, possibly the Imam or guardian, is present in the space. The work was created during Lewis's travels through the region in 1841.
Read the full account in the museum source.
John Frederick Lewis (1804–1876) was an English Orientalist painter. He specialized in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes in detailed watercolour or oils, very often repeating the same composition in a version in each…
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