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:
Negative (Black and White)
Negative Number:
RA364d
Reaccession Number:
ICFA.NA.0172
Repository:
Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Relation:
A lantern slide of this photograph is deposited in the Myron Bement Smith Collection, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution. See http://icfa.doaks.org/collections/artamonoff/items/show/1658.
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