Constantinople. Şehzade Mosque

Visit to the Ottoman Empire

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Accession Nr.: D.4530.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1905−1906
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Materials/Techniques: hand-coloured stereo glass diapositive
Dimensions: height: 8.5 cm
width: 17 cm
Dezső Bozóky hand-coloured glass diapositive. From Dezső Bozóky's Photographic Collection: Constantinople (İstanbul). 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.