Mehmet the Conqueror

Description:

Mehmet II - the artist is unknown, but the work has been attributed to both Gentile Bellini and to Contanzo da Ferrara. See Basil Grey, Burlington Magazine, lxi (1932), p. 4 et seg. Photograph taken of The Harem: an Account of the Institution as it Existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans with a History of the Grand Seragilio from its Foundation to the Present Time, N.M. Penzer (London: Harrap, 1936), opposite title page.

Photographer:

Nicholas V. Artamonoff

Date:

April 1937

Format:

Lantern Slide (Black and White)

Negative Number:

RA364d

Repository:

Myron Bement Smith Collection, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Relation:

A negative of this photograph is deposited in the Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Seehttp://icfa.doaks.org/collections/artamonoff/items/show/571.

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