• Pascal Sébah (photographer)
• Policarpe Joaillier (photographer)

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

between 1870 and 1886

View showing the Haliç (also known as the Golden Horn), the Galata Bridge, the Yeni Camii (also known as the Yeni Valide Camii and the New Mosque), the Nuruosmaniye Camii, Hagia Sophia (also now known as Ayasofya Müzesi).

Albumen silver print

composition: 24,9 × 28 cm (9 13/16 × 11 in.) secondary support: 32,7 × 28 cm tertiary support (irregular; approximately; for panorama): 32,1 × 262,1 cm

PH1977:0026:005

• 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
• ingénierie
• topographique

• houses
• domes
• city
• ships
• mosques
• bridge (built work)
• buildings
• minarets
• inlet