Joailler 1888 1908 (1 results)
Berggren, Guillaume (1835-1920); Abdullah Frères (active ca. 1858-1899); Sebah & Joailler (1888-1908) & Others. Album with 65 Original Albumen Photographs of Ottoman Istanbul and Its People. Ca. 1890s.
BERGGREN, Guillaume (1835-1920); ABDULLAH FRÈRES (active ca. 1858-1899); SEBAH & JOAILLER (1888-1908) & Others
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Folio (ca. 28,5x39,5 cm or 11 ¼ x 15 ½ in). 28 card stock leaves. With 65 mounted albumen photos, including 47 large images from ca. 24x30 cm (9 ½ x 11 ¾ in) to ca. 20x26 cm (7 ¾ x 10 in) and 18 smaller photos ca. 10x14,5 cm (4 x 5 ½ in) or slightly smaller. Most smaller photos are numbered in ne…gative; five are also captioned and signed "G. Berggren" in negative. Twenty-six large photos are captioned and signed in negative: twenty-one by "G. Berggren," four by "Abdullah Frères" and one by "Sebah & Joailler.". Period brown half morocco album with cloth boards; spine with raised bands; gilt-lettered title "Turquie" on brown labels mounted on the front board and the spine; marbled endpapers. Binding slightly rubbed on extremities and worn on hinges, mounts slightly waved and age-toned, but overall a very good album of strong interesting photos. Attractive collection of large panoramic and close-up views of Istanbul and its environs, as well as portraits of Turkish people taken by noted local studios of Guillaume Berggren, Abdullah Frères and Jean-Pascal Sebah (1872-1947) and Polycarpe Joailler (1848-1904). The album opens with eighteen smaller portraits (mostly by G. Berggren), showing Turkish elders, women, a water seller, a porter, a cook, a Persian merchant, a Montenegrin, and an Orthodox Greek priest. The large photos include excellent views of Sultan Ahmed (Blue) Mosque, Dolmabahce Palace (entrance gate), Beyazit Square, Topkapi Palace (an entrance in the inner courtyard), the Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III, Hagia Sophia (general view, the entrance gate), Taksim Military Barracks, Mihrisan Valide Sultan Fountain, Beylerbeyi Palace, Galata Tower, the Serpent Column, ruins of the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus, the Walls of Istanbul, Lykos/Bayrampasa Valley, the Aqueduct of Valens, Bayezid II Mosque, Turkish cemetery, elaborate marble arabesques decorating buildings, general views of the Istanbul Historical Peninsula, Galata and the Golden Horn, &c. There are also lively scenes and portraits with Turkish cobblers, street barbers and their clients, men smoking hookah, women from a harem on a countryside outing, porters, shoemakers, &c. Overall a nice collection of large well-preserved photos of Istanbul and its people in the late 19th century. A list of captions: Marchand Pérsan. No. 14. G. Berggren; Porteur d'Eau. Kurd. No. 10. G. Berggren; Montenegren. No. 32. G. Berggren; Dame Turque. No. 5. G. Berggren; Hamal Turc. No. 25. G. Berggren; Les Chiens errants de Const.ple. Abdullah Frères. 216; Savetiers Turcs. Abdullah Frères; Barbiers ambulants. Abdullah Frères. 322; 295. Café turc. Sebah & Joailler; Mosquée du Sultan Mehmed. No. 150. G. Berggren; Porte de Dolma-Bugtché Côté Quest. No. 100. G. Berggren; Place de Séraskierat. No. 138. G. Berggren; Porte du Hirka-i-Cherif au Vieux Serail. No. 114. G. Berggren; Fontaine d'Achmed. No. 12. G. Berggren; Porte de la Ste. Sophie. No. 124. G. Berggren; No. 85. Caserne d'Artillerie à Taxim. G. Berggren; No. 9. Kiosk et Fontaine des Eaux Douces d'Asie. No. 159. G. Berggren; Palais de Beylerbey. G. Berggren; No. 84. La Tour de Galata. G. Berggren; No. 2 Cimetiére Turc. G. Berggren; La Colonne Serpentine sur la Place de l'Hyppodrome. No. 87. G. Berggren; Vue intérieure du Château de Belisair (Tekir Serail). No. 127. G. Berggren; Piedestal de l'Obelisque de Théodose. No. 89. G. Berggren; Vue extérieur du Murs de Constantinople. No. 126. G. Berggren; Vallée de Lycos. 173. G. Berggren; Vue gégérale de l'Aquédut de Valens. No. 149. G. Berggren; No. 94. Vue de Foundoukli et Dalma-Bagtche. G. Berggren; Ste. Sophie. No. 11. G. Berggren; Mosquée du Sultan Achmed. No. 86. G. Berggren; Mosquée du Sultan Bayazid. No. 139. G. Berggren; No. 8. Pont de Karakeuy. G. Berggren; Cordonniers Turcs. Abdullah Frères. 306. Guillaum (Pehr Vilhelm) Berggren was a Swedish photographer who opened a studio in Constantinople in the late 1860s. "Berggren was quite a typical photographer of his time, taking many standard.
