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[Turkoman: A reddish Turkoman horse] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Vintage Wall Art

[Turkoman: A reddish Turkoman horse] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[Turkoman: A reddish Turkoman horse] / 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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[Turkoman: A reddish Turkoman horse] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

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A reddish Turkoman horse, photographed at the Imperial Stud Farm near Istanbul, is one of several horse portraits in an album made for Sultan Abdul-Hamid II between 1880 and 1893. The studio of Abdullah Frères, the Constantinople firm that served the Ottoman court, produced the print as an albumen silver image, and its Ottoman Turkish and French captions reflect the album's bilingual audience. Turkoman horses, bred from Central Asian lines, were highly valued in Ottoman breeding programs, so the picture documents both a prized animal and the state's interest in its stock.

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. 13. No. 7. 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,228 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-154670

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