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[The nine year old bay horse of Arabian origin named Sedid Saklavi] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Vintage Print

[The nine year old bay horse of Arabian origin named Sedid Saklavi] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[The nine year old bay horse of Arabian origin named Sedid Saklavi] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893]. Historic photograph from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The subject is a nine-year-old bay Arabian horse named Sedid Saklavi, identified by a caption written in both Ottoman Turkish and French. The photograph comes from an album of horses at the imperial stud farm on the outskirts of Istanbul, part of the Abdul-Hamid II collection. Arabian horses were prized at the Ottoman court, and the sultan's stables served as a showcase for breeding and prestige. The image was made by Abdullah Frères, a well-known Constantinople photography firm of the late nineteenth century, and its careful studio approach to animal portraiture shows the attention to detail that made the firm's work popular.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1893]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesTitle translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 11. No. 19. In album: Horses at the Imperial Stud Farm, Istanbul environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsHorses--Turkey--İstanbul İli--1880-1900. Horse farms--Turkey--İstanbul İli--1880-1900. Horseback riding--Turkey--İstanbul İli--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-154668

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