People:

Pascal Sébah (photographer)
Gaspare Fossati (architect)
Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks (patron)
Giuseppe Fossati (architect)

Title:

Panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), from the Galata Tower

Date:

between 1870 and 1886

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 panorama(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver prints

Dimensions:

composition (approximately; for panorama): 28,3 × 248,1 cm (11 1/8 × 97 11/16 in.) compositions (range; for individual images): 24,7 × 24,9 × 27,8 × 28,3 cm secondary supports (irregular; approx.; 10 secondary supports and two tabs joined): 32,1 × 262,1 cm secondary supports (range; for individual secondary supports): 32,1 × 33 × 27,8 × 28,3 cm tertiary support (irregular; approximately): 32,1 × 262,1 cm portfolio (closed): 28,4 × 34,2 × 1,4 cm

Reference number:

PH1977:0026:001-010

Point of View:

partial views
exterior views

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Photographs PH1977:0026:001 - PH1977:0026:010 form panorama PH1977:0026:001-010. The photographs are mounted on ten separate secondary supports and are all adhered to a cloth backing. Two paper tabs are also attached to the cloth backing at either end of the panorama. A black line frames the panorama across the secondary supports. The panorama is folded at the edge of every secondary support. The folded panorama is housed inside a black paper and cloth folder, which fits into an imprinted black cardboard and cloth portfolio. The portfolio rests in an imprinted case.

Inscription:

imprinted - in typescript and gold gilt, on the portfolio, centre: "PANORAMA / DE / CONSTANTINOPLE / PRIS DE LA TOUR / DE GALATA / P. SEBAH PHOT. / 439 GRANDE RUE DE PERA 439" labelled - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the secondary support of PH1977:0026:001, verso, centre: "Etablissement de Photographie / P. SEBAH / 439, GRANDE RUE DE PERA, 439. / Constantinople. / NB Mrs. les étrangers qui désireraient faire leurs portraits eu / Costumes Orientaux trouveront ces Costumes dans l'établissement." with other text

Location:

Istanbul; Istanbul (Province); Turkey;

Subject:

architecture
engineering
military
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
tower (single built work)
trees
scaffolds
people
street
houses
apartment houses
stores
tower (building division)
palaces
domes
city
road
ships
hills
mosques
bridges (built works)
buildings
sea
harbour
cemetery
square (open space)
church
minarets
clock tower
inlet
lighthouse
strait
military buildings
sea wall
school
wing (building division)
shipyard

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal