• Pascal Sébah (photographer)

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

between 1870 and 1886

Albumen silver print

composition: 24,7 × 28,1 cm (9 3/4 × 11 1/16 in.) secondary support: 32,8 × 28,2 cm tertiary support (irregular; approximately; for panorama): 32,1 × 262,1 cm

PH1977:0026:004

• 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.

uninscribed - object uninscribed

Istanbul; Istanbul (Province); Turkey;

• architecture
• topographique

• trees
• houses
• tower (building division)
• palace
• domes
• city
• ships
• mosques
• buildings
• sea
• minarets
• inlet
• sea wall