Istanbul Travel Poster: Messageries Maritimes, Paris en Orient by Eugène d’Argence, 1909 Finish:Framed art print a historic canal linking the

a historic canal linking the Atlantic to the Mediterranean

which were crucial to Marseille's status as a major Mediterranean trading hub

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Istanbul Travel Poster: Messageries Maritimes, Paris en Orient by Eugène d’Argence, 1909 Finish:Framed art print a historic canal linking theMessageries 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