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French factory at Toulouse
News of the Naval Battle of Navarino
faience plate, diameter 21 cm
isncribed: Nouvelle du combat de Navarin. (low centre) Michael and Demetra Varkarakis Collection
STRONG PUBLIC INTEREST in visual accounts of the Battle of Navarino was such that the event was captured across mediums and art forms. In addition to the battle itself, the scenes of celebration at the news of the victorious outcome, which erupted throughout Christian Europe and, of course, Greece, inspired artists to produce images in a variety of styles and approaches.
The celebration of the breaking news of the Navari- no victory on this decorative plate is also the theme of the decoration of a jug. This is a version, featuring a smaller number of figures, made after a multi-fig-
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[Sotiris Zisis]
Description of the Naval Battle of Navarino and the immediately preceding Events, translated from the German language and published in the expenses of Mister Zisis Sotiris the Greek, by love to the Nation
Pesti 1829: Mattheus Trattner
Library of the Hellenic Parliament
IN THE AFTERMATH of the naval battle of Navarino and the victory of the Christian forces, a wealth of publications and engravings came out to inform the public with their explanatory maps and captions.
This is a translation into Greek of the anonymous pamphlet Darstellung der Seeschlacht von Navarin und der Unmittelbar Vorgegangenen Begebenheiten, published in German in Karlsruhe in 1828.
The frontispiece is adorned with a map of the port of Navarino and the deployment of the fleets during the battle (‘Plan of the naval battle in the port of Navarino on October 20, 1827’); according to the caption, the map is based on a drawing by Admiral Edward Codrington, commander of the English fleet and one of the three triumphant victors at Navari- no, which he had sent to the British ambassador to Florence.
ure composition, titled The News of Navarino, designed by Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé, engraved by Le
Villain and published in lithograph-
ic form in 1827. In the centre, a pair
of Greeks celebrate; on the left, female figures and a child figure join in; on the right, two figures read about the news in the press.
The scene is set against the backdrop of an ancient column and spolia – elements that enable a Europe- an viewer to associate this image with Greece.
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