• Pascal Sébah (photographer)
• Gaspare Fossati (architect)
• Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks (patron)
• Giuseppe Fossati (architect)

Panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), from the Galata Tower

between 1870 and 1886

Albumen silver prints

composition (approximately; for panorama): 28,3 × 248,1 cm (11 1/8 × 97 11/16 in.) compositions (range; for individual images): 24,7 × 24,9 × 27,8 × 28,3 cm secondary supports (irregular; approx.; 10 secondary supports and two tabs joined): 32,1 × 262,1 cm secondary supports (range; for individual secondary supports): 32,1 × 33 × 27,8 × 28,3 cm tertiary support (irregular; approximately): 32,1 × 262,1 cm portfolio (closed): 28,4 × 34,2 × 1,4 cm

PH1977:0026:001-010

• partial views
• exterior views

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.

imprinted - in typescript and gold gilt, on the portfolio, centre: "PANORAMA / DE / CONSTANTINOPLE / PRIS DE LA TOUR / DE GALATA / P. SEBAH PHOT. / 439 GRANDE RUE DE PERA 439" labelled - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the secondary support of PH1977:0026:001, 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
• ingénierie
• militaire
• topographique

• ruins
• tower (single built work)
• trees
• scaffolds
• people
• street
• houses
• apartment houses
• stores
• tower (building division)
• palaces
• domes
• city
• road
• ships
• hills
• mosques
• bridges (built works)
• buildings
• sea
• harbour
• cemetery
• square (open space)
• church
• minarets
• clock tower
• inlet
• lighthouse
• strait
• military buildings
• sea wall
• school
• wing (building division)
• shipyard

Contient:

• PH1977:0026:001, Section of a panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from the Galata Tower, between 1870 and 1886
• PH1977:0026:002, Section of a panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from the Galata Tower, between 1870 and 1886
• PH1977:0026:003, Section of a panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from the Galata Tower, between 1870 and 1886
• PH1977:0026:004, Section of a panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from the Galata Tower, between 1870 and 1886
• PH1977:0026:005, Section of a panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from the Galata Tower, between 1870 and 1886
• PH1977:0026:006, Section of a panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from the Galata Tower, between 1870 and 1886
• PH1977:0026:007, Section of a panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from the Galata Tower, between 1870 and 1886
• PH1977:0026:008, Section of a panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from the Galata Tower, between 1870 and 1886
• PH1977:0026:009, Section of a panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from the Galata Tower, between 1870 and 1886
• PH1977:0026:010, Section of a panorama of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from the Galata Tower, between 1870 and 1886