Constantinople: Turkish Cemetery in Scutari, 1869

Title

Constantinople: Turkish Cemetery in Scutari

Studio

• Abdullah Frères

Period Produced

• 19th century

School

• local photography
• travel photography

Object Type

• photograph

Physical Description

Albumen print mounted on cardboard

Material

• albumen
• silver (toned) particles
• cardboard
• paper

Technique

• albumen print

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Bezeichnet recto unten Mitte auf dem Trägerkarton: Handschriftlich: Cimetière turc

Captions Added Later

Bezeichnet recto unten rechts auf dem Trägerkarton: Handschriftlich: Vgl. Sotherby 29.10.76., p.26

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Photographic Collection

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Eigentum des Städelschen Museums-Vereins e.V.

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 2011 with support from the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Hessischer Kulturstiftung, property of the Städelscher Museums-Verein e.V.

Genre

• landscape
• architecture

Main Motif

• Constantinople
• cemetery
• copse
• Istanbul-Üsküdar
• tree
• Istanbul
• Turkey

Primary

• 61E(ISTANBUL) names of cities and villages (ISTANBUL)
• 61E(ISTANBUL-ÜSKÜDAR) names of cities and villages (ISTANBUL-ÜSKÜDAR)
• 61E(KONSTANTINOPEL) names of cities and villages (KONSTANTINOPEL)
• 42E434 cemetery, park-like burying ground

Secondary

• 42E3111 upright gravestone
• 25G11 groups of trees
• 25G3 trees
• 49L14 other alphabetic scripts

Associative

• 41D221(TURBAN) head-gear: turban