Constantinople. Şehzade Mosque

Visit to the Ottoman Empire

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Accession Nr.: D.4530.2.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1905−1906
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Materials/Techniques: colour print, photo enlargement
Dimensions: height: 53 cm
width: 53 cm
exhibition material of Kolta Gallery, 8.5x17 cm, new enlargement from the original stereo glass diapositive variant: D.4530. It was commissioned by Sultan Suleiman I as a memorial to his son, Mehmed, who died young. It was designed by Mimar (Architect) Sinan, one of the pre-eminent architects of the sixteenth century.