Stele or False Door to a Tomb by Boston Public Library
Zusammenfassung
BPLDC no.: 08_04_000047
Page Title: Stele or False Door to a Tomb
Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection
Album: Volume 26: Lower Egypt. Pyramids.
Call no. 4098B.104 v26 (p. 46)
Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn
Description: Scrapbook page with a photograph of an Egyptian stele or door covered with relief carvings of figures and hieroglyphics.
Subjects:
Bas-reliefs (sculpture)
Egypt
stelae
Page size: 33 x 38.1 cm
Language: English
Rights: No known restrictions.
Coverage: Egypt
Notes: Title supplied by cataloger, derived from captions or annotated information.
Format: Scrapbooks
Technique: Photographs, Albumen prints
BPL Department: Print Department
Photo 1:
Photographer: Sébah, J. Pascal
Caption: Stele or false door
Date: ca. 1888-1890
Flickr data on 2011-08-03:
Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m
License: CC BY 2.0
User: Boston Public Library BPL
Pascal Sebah was a pioneering photographer in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the late 19th century. He was born in Istanbul to an Armenian family and began his career as a photographer in the early 1850s. Sebah quickly gained recognition for his work, which included portraits, landscapes and architectural photographs. He became particularly famous for his images of Ottoman architecture, which were widely distributed throughout Europe and helped shape Western perceptions of the Ottoman Empire. Sebah's studio, which he founded in 1857, became one of the most important photographic studios in Constantinople, attracting clients from all over the Ottoman Empire. Today, Sebah's photographs are highly prized by collectors and considered important historical documents of Ottoman society and culture.