Pl. XXII is a monochrome print based on a drawing by Pietro Montani accompanying Montani’s chapter called Technical Dossier (Technische Documente / Documents techniques) in Marie de Launay, Die Ottomanische Baukunst / L’Architecture ottomane / Uṣūl-i Miʿmāriyye-i ʿUsmaniyye, Istanbul: Imprimerie et lithographie centrales (1873). It shows the upper floor of a civic building. Above a large rectangular window opening, there is a stucco and glass window with a pointed arch. Its stucco lattice takes the form of tendrils growing symmetrically upwards with palmettes and half-palmettes. The surrounding band has perforations in simple repeating geometric forms.

In the description of the plates, the stucco and glass window is characterized as opening in the wall filled with decorative glass (‘[…] sich in den Mauern Oeffnungen befinden, welche mit Glas geschlossen sind.’ / ‘[…] se trouvent percées des ouvertures lesquelles se trouvent garnies de vitraux.’, p. 20). Information on the dating of the civic building and its window is not given.
The façade depicted has structural similarities to the so-called Turkish dwelling (Türkisches Wohnhaus), one of the Ottoman pavilions erected at the 1873 world’s fair in Vienna (… Plus