Rare immense Panorama albumine Constantinople Pascal Sébah & Joaillier 1823-1886

Description

The interest in engraved books in England in the 19th century, which introduced eastern countries, eventually spawned a new group of professional artists to feed this market. This period was the heyday of the engraving artists.
Revealing the most beautiful view when viewed from a hill, especially due to its geographical location, Istanbul took its place in engravings drawn mostly by imagination in the first period. These images were prepared with the lithography technique, also known as lithography, and began to be seen in publications.
Panorama photos were taken piece by piece and put together. Rotating around the same axis would provide great convenience to the photographer. Istanbul was a lucky city with the balconies of the minarets and the Galata and Beyazıt towers that enabled this 360-degree rotation.
From Beyazıt Tower, the Bosphorus was viewed perpendicularly, and Süleymaniye and the Golden Horn were in the front. Galata Tower, on the other hand, would give views over the Historical Peninsula, overlooking the Marmara Sea.
These panoramas were bound on cloth at the seams, folded carefully, placed inside the bindings decorated with monograms or flamboyant gilding patterns, and offered for sale.
Pascal Sebah, who opened a studio called "El Shark" in Pera in 1857, became one of the best-known representatives of Orientalism in photography. The panoramas he took from both Beyazıt and Galata Tower were very successful.