• Pascal Sébah (photographer)

Partial view of Constantinople showing the Haliç (also known as the Golden Horn), the Sea of Marmara and Topkapi Palace with Galata in the foreground, from the Galata Tower, Ottoman Empire (now in Turkey)

between 1864 and 1870

Albumen silver print

comp.: 28.3 x 31.5 cm secondary support: 29.8 x 31.5 cm

PH1980:1166:004

• partial view
• exterior view

- Photographs PH1980:1166:001 - PH1980:1166:008 form panorama PH1980:1166:001-008. The photographs are mounted on eight separate secondary supports, which are hinged together with white woven tape.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.l. to l.r.: "View of Galata and Point de Seraille and Kadi Keoge - Constantin[ople]" [cut-off]

Istanbul; Istanbul (Province); Turkey;

• architecture
• topographique

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