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[Cenk: The gray Arabian horse] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Antique Print

[Cenk: The gray Arabian horse] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[Cenk: The gray Arabian 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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[Cenk: The gray Arabian horse] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Cenk: The gray Arabian horse] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

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Its caption identifies a gray Arabian horse, and the print was made by Abdullah Frères, a Constantinople studio that worked for the Ottoman court. It comes from an album of horses at the Imperial Stud Farm near Istanbul, part of the photographs gathered for Sultan Abdul-Hamid II, who ruled from 1876 to 1909. Arabian horses were prized across the Ottoman world for their bloodlines and served as signs of royal standing, so a studio portrait of a single animal reflects both breeding pride and the court's interest in careful documentation. The albumen process, widely used for photographic prints in this period, gives the image its soft, warm tones.

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. 26. No. 79. 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. Horseback riding--Turkey--İstanbul İli--1880-1900. Horse farms--Turkey--İstanbul İli--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,200 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-154683

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