Partial view of Constantinople (now Istanbul) showing Topkapi Palace with the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara in the background, from the Seraskerate Tower (now Beyazit Tower), Ottoman Empire (now in Turkey)

People:

Robertson & Beato (photographic studio)

Title:

Date:

1857

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Salted paper print

Dimensions:

comp.: 24.3 x 30.1 cm

Reference number:

PH1980:0198:004

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Photographs PH1980:0198:001 - PH1980:0198:005 are glued together to form panorama PH1980:0198:001-005. The right edge of photograph PH1980:0198:001 is covered by the left edge of photograph PH1980:0198:002 and left edges of photographs PH1980:0198:003 - PH1980:0198:005 are covered by the right edge of photographs PH1980:0198:002 - PH1980:0198:004, respectively, where the five photographs are attached.

Inscription:

inscribed and signed - by James Robertson, on the negative, l.l.: "point du serail"; l.r.: "Robertson & Beato"

Location:

Istanbul; Istanbul (Province); Turkey;

Subject:

architecture
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

trees
houses
wall
palace
domes
city
mosques
buildings
sea
minarets
strait

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

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