• Félix Bonfils (photographer)

Partial view of the Seraskerate (later known as the Ministry of War or Ministry of Defense; now Istanbul Üniversitesi) showing the Mihrimah Sultan Camii, Selim Camii and the Haliç (also known as the Golden Horn) in the background, from the Seraskerate (no

between 1870 and 1885

- A partial view of the Seraskerate (later known as the Ministry of War or Ministry of Defense; now Istanbul Üniversitesi) is visible in this photograph with the roof of the main building (also known as the Ministry of War) in the foreground; a building possibly known as the Süleyman Barracks, located to the northwest of the main building, under construction, in the center; and another building, possibly barracks, located north of the main building, in the center right.

Albumen silver print

comp. (approx.): 23 x 28.4 cm secondary support (for panorama): 26.7 x 117.1 cm

PH1980:0683.02:007:002

• partial view
• exterior view

- Photographs PH1980:0683.02:007:001 - PH1980:0683.02:007:004 are glued together to form panorama PH1980:0683.02:007:001. The right edges of photographs PH1980:0683.02:007:001 - PH1980:0683.02:007:003 are covered by the left edges of photographs PH1980:0683.02:007:002 - PH1980:0683.02:007:004, where the four photographs are attached. The photographs are attached to a modern secondary support made of a single piece of white cardboard.

labelled and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on two paper labels attached to the secondary support, l.c.: "Vue génerale de Constantinople" signed and numbered - by the photographer, on the negative, c.l.: "Bonfils / 52" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.l.: "7"

France

• architecture
• militaire
• topographique

• government office building
• scaffolds
• houses
• city
• mosques
• square (open space)
• inlet
• public building
• military buildings