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[A British horse named Riyu] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Historic Reproduction

[A British horse named Riyu] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[A British horse named Riyu] / 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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A British-bred horse named Riyu is the subject of this albumen print, which the album caption identifies as part of a series of horses at the Imperial Stud Farm outside Istanbul. The photographs were taken by Abdullah Frères, the Constantinople studio of the Abdullah brothers, Armenian photographers who worked for the Ottoman court and its patrons. The image comes from an album assembled for Sultan Abdul-Hamid II, who reigned from 1876 to 1909 and kept large stables that prized imported horses. Its bilingual Ottoman Turkish and French captions show how the palace presented its breeding program to Western visitors.

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. 3. No. 82. 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,158 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171230

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