• Robertson & Beato (photographic studio)

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

Salted paper print

comp.: 24.3 x 30.1 cm

PH1980:0198:004

• exterior view

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

Istanbul; Istanbul (Province); Turkey;

• architecture
• topographique

• trees
• houses
• wall
• palace
• domes
• city
• mosques
• buildings
• sea
• minarets
• strait