Another Cover for the Maltese Novel: Amadeo Preziosi (1816-82)

Here is the image which is on the cover of the paperback I actually own.

As fate would have it, this is another Maltese connection, for the artist, Amadeo Preziosi, came from an aristocratic Maltese family. In 1842 he decided to follow other European artists to the near East, and ended up staying, residing in Istanbul. With five languages, Italian, French, Greek, English, Turkish (presumably Maltese as well?), he married 'an Istanbul Greek woman' and had four children. He died of accidentally self-inflicted wounds in a hunting accident, and is buried in the Catholic cemetery in Yeşilköy.

Note to self: Diacritical marks do come over into blog text if copied.

These details are from a news account of a 2009 sale at Bonhams of a self-titled sketchbook 'Souvenir de mon dernier voyage' (1875), which was estimated to go for £320,000 - 500,000.

Here is someone at Bonhams holding it.