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H.I.M. the Sultan Abdul-Hamid II opening the new Parliament, 1908, [Turkey] – Vintage Print

H.I.M. the Sultan Abdul-Hamid II opening the new Parliament, 1908, [Turkey], [c1908?] — antique lithograph
H.I.M. the Sultan Abdul-Hamid II opening the new Parliament, 1908, [Turkey], [c1908?]. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: H.I.M. the Sultan Abdul-Hamid II opening the new Parliament, 1908, [Turkey], preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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H.I.M. the Sultan Abdul-Hamid II opening the new Parliament, 1908, [Turkey]

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Few images capture a turning point in Ottoman politics as directly as this color lithograph, which shows Sultan Abdul-Hamid II opening a new Parliament in 1908. A.H. Zaki made the print for *Cairo Punch*, a satirical publication that used caricature to comment on rulers and public affairs. The caption card's date is unverified, but the subject fits the period after the Young Turk Revolution forced the sultan to restore the constitution and recall a legislature he had suspended about three decades earlier. A ceremony staged by a ruler in those circumstances could be read as either renewal or reluctant concession, and the print invites that question.

Created / published[c1908?]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
NotesColor lithograph by A.H. Zaki (the Cairo Punch). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,081 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-173655

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