Lot 14: James Robertson

James Robertson
constantinople. study of the entrance to the harem of the imperial palace and fountain of ahmed iii, circa 1853-54
Salt Print, signed in the negative,
290 by 251mm
Provenance:
Sotheby's Belgravia, London, June 11th 1976, lot 234.
Literature:
Bahattin Oztuncay, James Robertson Pioneer of Photography in the Ottoman Empire, Istambul, 1992. The author illustrates, fig. 7, a steel engraving after a study with variant figure grouping, published in Souvenirs de Constantinople, Trieste, late 1850s.