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[A German horse named Asil] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. – Historic Reproduction

[A German horse named Asil] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères., [between 1880 and 1893] — historic photograph
[A German horse named Asil] / 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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[A German horse named Asil] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[A German horse named Asil] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

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The horse pictured here is Asil, a Trakehner of German breeding that the record identifies as the favorite mount of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Trakehner horses were bred at the Trakehnen stud in East Prussia, and the Ottoman court drew on European bloodlines to improve its own stables. The print comes from an album of views of the imperial stud farm outside Istanbul, made by the Constantinople studio Abdullah Frères between 1880 and 1893. Its caption appears in Ottoman Turkish and French, and the saddle and doorway in the frame place the animal in a working royal stable.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1893]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1880-1900.
NotesA Trakehner horse. Abdul Hamid's favorite horse. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 2. 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. Saddles--Turkey--İstanbul İli--1880-1900. Doors & doorways--Turkey--İstanbul İli--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,126 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171229

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