• Robertson & Beato (photographic studio)
• Gaspare Fossati (architect)
• Giuseppe Fossati (architect)
• Bezmi Alem Valide Sultan (patron)

Panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul), from the Seraskerate Tower (now Beyazit Tower), Ottoman Empire (now in Turkey)

1857

Salted paper prints

comp. (for panorama): 24,3 x 148,2 cm comps. (range; for individual images): 24,1 to 24,3 x 29,3 to 30,4 cm

PH1980:0198:001-005

• partial views
• exterior views

- 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.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.c.: with title inscribed and signed - by James Robertson, on the negative, l.c.: [cut-off]; l.c.: "Robertson & Beat[o]" [cut-off]; l.c.: "le / Bosphore"; l.r.: "point du serail"; l.r.: "Robertson & Beato"; l.r.: "[Nimiri ?] [Dirmonic?]"; l.r.: "[Roberston] & Beato" [cut-off]

Istanbul; Istanbul (Province); Turkey;

• architecture
• engineering
• military
• topographic

• government office buildings
• courtyard
• tower (single built work)
• trees
• houses
• wall
• palaces
• domes
• city
• ships
• hills
• mosques
• bridges (built works)
• bazaar
• buildings
• sea
• monument
• minarets
• inlet
• strait
• university
• memorial column
• military buildings
• masts

Contains:

• PH1980:0198:001, View the Süleymaniye Camii with a partial view of the Seraskerate (later known as the Ministry of War or Ministry of Defense; now Istanbul Üniversitesi) in the foreground and the Unkapani Bridge (also formerly known as the Cisr-i Atik [Old Bridge]; now At, 1857
• PH1980:0198:002, Partial view of Constantinople (now Istanbul) showing the Haliç (also known as the Golden Horn) with the Galata Tower in the background, from the Seraskerate Tower (now Beyazit Tower), Ottoman Empire (now in Turkey), 1857
• PH1980:0198:003, Partial view of Constantinople (now Istanbul) showing the Yeni Camii (also known as the Yeni Valide Camii and the New Mosque), Galata Bridge, Haliç (also known as the Golden Horn) and the Bosperus with the Dolmabahçe Sarayi (also known as Dolmabahçe Palac, 1857
• PH1980:0198:004, 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), 1857
• PH1980:0198:005, Partial view of Constantinople (now Istanbul) showing the Kapaliçarsi (also known as the Grand Bazaar), the Nuruosmaniye Camii, Hagia Sophia (also now known as the Ayasofya Müzesi), a university, the Sultanahmet Camii (also known as the Blue Mosque), the , 1857