Weltausstellung 1873 Wien

Inside view of Ottoman Pavillion


Ottoman Coffee House

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An album by Osman Hamdi Bey and Marie de Launay's [1] Les Costumes populaires de la Turquie was published for 1873 Vienna World Exhibition as 1290 senesinde elbise-yi Osmaniye / Hamdy bey ... et Marie de Launay ... phototypie de Sébah[3]. Constantinople : Imprimerie du "Levant Times & Shipping Gazette,[2]" 1873

[1] Marie de Launay was a translator and the author of many Ottoman publications.
[2]The Levant Times and Shipping Gazette Istanbul, Turkey 1868 - 1874
[3] Sébah, J. Pascal (d. 1890), Constantinople (Istanbul)-based commercial photographer whose genre scenes, views, and archaeological studies of the Middle East, especially Egypt, but also Palestine and Mesopotamia, were widely distributed from the 1870s. Made using the wet-plate process, they appear in various formats, from cartes de visite to panoramas. At some stage he went into partnership with another photographer, Jollier (or Joaillier), and, as with many contemporaries, it is uncertain how many of the photographs issued by the firm were actually taken by Sébah. In 1899, the acquisition of Abdullah Frères' stock compounded the problem of attribution. In 1873 Sébah was commissioned by the Turkish painter Osman Hamdy Bey to make a series of studio costume studies of people from different regions and social classes for an Ottoman album to be shown at the Vienna International Exhibition. La Turquie à l'Exposition universelle de 1867.