Lot 4002 | Abdullah Frères: Group portrait of the sultan's Libyan guards
Group portrait of the Sultan Abdülaziz's Libyan guards in traditonal dress. Circa 1863. Large-format albumen print. 28,7 x 24 cm. Mounted to thick card, annotated in French in ink below the image on the mount.
Minimal fading in edges and traces of light surface abrasion, otherwise in very good condition and a very rare large-format print.
Lit.: Bahattin Öztuncay. The Photographers of Constantinople. Pioneers, Studios and Artists from 19th Century Istanbul (vol. II). Istanbul 2006 (2nd edition), compare ill. plates 464 - 465 and 469.
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