Istanbul Travel Poster: Messageries Maritimes, Paris en Orient by Eugène d’Argence, 1909 Finish:Framed art print with illustrations by A

with illustrations by A

including several neighborhoods

a historic canal linking the Atlantic to the Mediterranean

including Endeavour

Istanbul Travel Poster: Messageries Maritimes, Paris en Orient by Eugène d’Argence, 1909 Finish:Framed art print with illustrations by AMessageries Maritimes, Paris En Orient by Eugne dArgence (1909) captures the golden age of ocean travel at the moment France embraced the romance of the Orient. Designed in the graceful current of late Art Nouveau poster art, the image pairs a modern steamship with a mosque dotted skyline, suggesting the storied ports of the Eastern Mediterranean beneath a glowing, sunset sky. Its a scene made to turn heads in a Paris streetbold, legible type above; a