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[The training of the horse: lifting its hind legs] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Historic Print

[The training of the horse: lifting its hind legs] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[The training of the horse: lifting its hind legs] / 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 training of the horse: lifting its hind legs] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[The training of the horse: lifting its hind legs] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

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Few things in this album capture a horse mid-lesson quite like this one, which shows a trained animal raised up on its hind legs, a movement long prized in classical horsemanship. The print is captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French and was made by Abdullah Frères, the Constantinople studio that photographed for the Ottoman court. It belongs to a album of horses at the Imperial Stud Farm outside Istanbul, assembled in the years when Sultan Abdul-Hamid II, who reigned from 1876 to 1909, was building up his collection of photographs. Its formal, carefully posed quality reflects how the palace used images to show off its horses and its modern standing.

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. 24. No. 5. 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. Animal training--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 × 1,198 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-154681

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