Panorama de Constantinople
Subtitle: pris de la tour de Galata
By: par Sebah & Joaillier
Contributors: Sebah & Joaillier
Publisher: Mas Printing
Place of publication: Istanbul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Pictorial works; Harbors; Aerial views; Facsimiles
Other titles: Panoramic photographs of Istanbul; Istanbul panoramik fotoǧrafları
Description: Shows a panorama of Istanbul taken from from Galata Tower looking across the quarter of Galata towards the Tophane district and the Bosporus beyond, then to the outer Golden Horn harbor and the tip of the Istanbul peninsula with the Palace of Topkapi, then sweeping across the city inland along the Golden Horn waterfront towards the district of Eyüp.
Notes: Title from portfolio cover.

Facsimile of panorama of ca. 1878-ca. 1890, with two leaves of print in Turkish and in English, in portfolio.

Ten facsimiles of photographs in an accordion-fold format.

On printed leaves: Engin Özendes / photohistorian, author, curator.

The photographic firm of Sébah & Joaillier operated in Constantinople from ca. 1860 to 1899 during the most intense phase of Ottoman economic and sociopolitical transformations that had begun with the Tamizat reforms of 1839. The reforms were aimed at regularization and modernization along Western lines.