The Resting Place, Scutari

Scutari (now Üsküdar, on the Asian shore of Istanbul) was once a major Ottoman city in its own right, distinct from Constantinople across the Bosphorus. A resting place in Scutari suggests a moment of pause in that liminal space between Europe and Asia — perhaps a caravanserai, a courtyard, or a shaded public space in the city's Ottoman quarter. Urushibara's 1924 print of this unusual subject indicates a range of European travel that extended to the boundaries of the Ottoman world.