Panorama de Constantinople pris de la Tour de Galata

Panorama de Constantinople pris de la Tour de Galata

Photograph

Sébah & Joaillier

Maker
Turkish, 1888–1904

Panorama de Constantinople pris de la Tour de Galata

ca. 1894
Bound panorama of albumen silver prints
Overall (closed): 12 5/16 × 14 11/16 × 13/16 in. (31.3 × 37.3 × 2 cm)
Overall (open): 12 5/16 × 133 7/16 in. (31.3 × 339 cm)
Image (each panel): 9 13/16 × 13 5/16 in. (25 × 33.8 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
Inscriptions Stamped in gilt on red leather front cover, C: PANORAMA \ DE \ Constatinople \ PRIS \ DE LA \ Tour DE Galata \ PAR \ Sebah & Joaillier
Stamped in gilt on red leather front cover, TL / BR / TR: [design of Galata Tower (TL) and Leander Tower (BR) both surrounded by decorative borders] / [stamped arabic script (TR)]
Inscribed in black ink, on applied white label, front cover, BL: 05.37
Inscribed in black ink on applied scalloped-oval label, pastedown (panel a), TL: collection \ G. Cromer
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel a, BC: Péra
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel b, TC: Bosphore
Inscribed in pencil (Boyer's hand), on mount, panel b, TR: Marvellous \ B [Boyer's initial]
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel b, BC: Topi-Hané
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel c, TC: Tour de Léandre Scutari
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel d, T (C/R): Pointe du Séraïl / Trésor
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel d, BC: Galata
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel e, T (L/C/R): Ste. Sophie / Sultan Ahmed / Sultan Validé
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel e, BC: Pont de Galata
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel f, T (L/C/R): Stamboul [larger letters] / Tour de Séraskérat / Mosquée Suleymanie
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel f, B (L/C): Banque Imple. [Impériale] Ottomane / Corne d'Or
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel g, T (L/C/R): Acqueduc de Valence / Stamboul [larger letters] \ Sultan Féthi Mehmed
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel g, B (C/R): Corne d'Or / Vieux [illegible]
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel h, T (L/R): Kahrié Djami / Stamboul [larger letters]
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel h, B (L/C): Azab-Kapou Corne d'Or / Port Militaire
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel i, T (L/C/R): L'Arsénal [sic] / L'Amirauté / Kassim-Pacha
Inscribed in black ink on mount, panel j, B (L/R): Pera / Tunel.
Stamped in blue ink, panel j, verso, C: SEBAH & JOAILLIER \ Photographes de la Cour Royale \ DE PRUSSE \ CONSTANTINOPLE
Inscribed in black ink, panel j, verso, C: Frcs. 40. [price in francs]
Inscribed and signed in pencil (Boyer's hand), panel j, verso, RC: Sold @ 40 Gold Francs \ 20d [underlined] \ $8.00 \ Boyer [signature]
Printed in black ink, applied label, panel c verso, TL: LIBRARY \ OF THE \ GEORGE EASTMAN \ HOUSE \ C 2-2

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