Name of Object:

Dolmabahçe Palace Portal Under Construction

Location:

Istanbul, Türkiye

Holding Institution:

Ömer M. Koç Collection

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Date of Object:

1853

Author:

James Robertson (1813, London-1888, Yokohama)

Description:

Lacan heaps particular praise on the artist's panorama taken from Beyazıt Tower as well as on his photograph of the architectural elements of Galata Tower, the Hagia Sophia, the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, and Dolmabahçe Sarayı. Robertson’s Istanbul photographs are concerned primarily with the city’s historical monuments. They reveal the city’s magnificent Byzantine and Ottoman structures from different angles and with close-ups taken in an approach that is usually quite aesthetic.

Type of Object

Photograph

Citation of this web page:

Bahattin Öztuncay "Dolmabahçe Palace Portal Under Construction" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;tr;11;en

Prepared by: Bahattin Öztuncay
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