• Pascal Sébah (photographer)
• Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks (patron)

Section of a panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from the Galata Tower

between 1870 and 1886

Albumen silver print

composition: 24,9 × 28,3 cm (9 13/16 × 11 1/8 in.) secondary support: 32,1 × 28,3 cm tertiary support (irregular; approximately; for panorama): 32,1 × 262,1 cm

PH1977:0026:001

• partial view
• exterior view

- 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.

labelled - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the secondary support, 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

Istanbul; Istanbul (Province); Turkey;

• architecture

• ruins
• trees
• street
• houses
• apartment houses
• city
• buildings
• church
• school