A page from the album of the Topkapi Saray Museum Library: Birds fighting with dragons and snakes on a 15th-century pen and ink drawing

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Accession Nr.: F.2009.54.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
before 1881
Place of production:
Marks: In the bottom right corner: the El' Chark's stamp, handwritten: 36
Techniques: albumin; mounted
Dimensions: height: 26 cm
width: 43 cm
height: 14.7 cm
width: 22.4 cm
Photo collection of Dániel Szilágyi.Two dragons twisting out of a flower in the center fight with three to three birds/phoenixes, surrounded by flowers.

Place of production: El' Chark Société Photographic. Albumen print mounted on cardboard.