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[The white Arabian horse named Bedevi, 13 years old, 1 meter and 55 centimeters] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Vintage Wall Art

[The white Arabian horse named Bedevi, 13 years old, 1 meter and 55 centimeters] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[The white Arabian horse named Bedevi, 13 years old, 1 meter and 55 centimeters] / 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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Step back in time with [The white Arabian horse named Bedevi, 13 years old, 1 meter and 55 centimeters] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[The white Arabian horse named Bedevi, 13 years old, 1 meter and 55 centimeters] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

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The white Arabian horse in this print is Bedevi, recorded as 13 years old and standing 1 meter and 55 centimeters, a detail that sets it apart from the other horses on the board. The caption in Ottoman Turkish and French identifies the animal and its stud farm in the Istanbul environs, which belonged to the court of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The photograph was made by the Abdullah Frères studio in Constantinople, a firm known for portraits and views of the city, and it appears in an album of horses at the imperial stud. Such images reflected the sultan's interest in Arabian breeding during the late nineteenth century.

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. 4. No. 14. 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 × 1,187 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-154661

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