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[The bay Arabian horse named Kessaf] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Antique Wall Art

[The bay Arabian horse named Kessaf] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[The bay Arabian horse named Kessaf] / 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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This albumen print shows a bay Arabian horse named Kessaf, captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. The Abdullah Frères studio, a well-known Constantinople photography firm, made it sometime between 1880 and 1893, during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The sultan's album presents the horse as part of the Imperial Stud Farm on the outskirts of Istanbul, where the Ottoman court kept Arabian horses prized for their bloodlines. The picture belongs to a broader effort to document the imperial stables and their horses for the palace.

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. 12. No. 25. 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 × 1,158 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171239

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