"Of all the Western painters who have used the Bosphorus landscapes as their theme, the one I like most to see and study, and the one that seems most convincing to me is Melling. A facsimile edition in format in folio of the book published by the painter in 1819, Of which even his name is poetic, Picturesque journey to Constantinople and the shores of the Bosphorus (<<A picturesque journey through Istanbul and the banks of the Bosphorus>>), was edited by my uncle, publisher-poet Sevket Rado, in 1969, who gave us a copy in the days when the love for painting."
Orhan Pamuk - Istanbul—Memories and the City (2005) - Nobel Prize 2006
Translated by Maureen Freely