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[The black Arabian horse named Behim] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Vintage Print

[The black Arabian horse named Behim] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[The black Arabian horse named Behim] / 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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Behim, a black Arabian horse, is the named subject of this albumen print, which Abdullah Frères, the Constantinople studio of the Abdullah brothers, made in the years between 1880 and 1893. The caption, in Ottoman Turkish and French, places the animal at the Imperial Stud Farm in the environs of Istanbul. The picture belongs to the Abdul-Hamid II Collection, assembled during a reign in which the sultan's court kept a notable stable of Arabian horses. Photographs like this one recorded individual animals for the court, so the image also shows how carefully the Ottoman state documented its prized bloodlines.

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. 9. No. 44. 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 × 1,158 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171236

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