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Portrait of a Man and His Dog
Pascal Sébahc. 1880
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Born in Constantinople to a Syrian father and Armenian mother, Sébah opened a photography studio there in either the late 1850s or ’60s. This carte de visite, a small, inexpensive photographic format developed in France and meant to be left as a calling card or collected, attests to the rapid and potent global spread of photographic technology, formats, and conventions in the mid-1800s.
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- Title: Portrait of a Man and His Dog
- Creator: Pascal Sébah (Turkish, 1823-1886)
- Date Created: c. 1880
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 9.4 x 5.8 cm (3 11/16 x 2 5/16 in.); Paper: 10.2 x 6.3 cm (4 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.28
- Medium: carte-de-visite, albumen print
- Inscriptions: Imprinted in red ink on recto: P. SEBAH, PHOT., Imprinted in red ink on verso: “decorative images/PARIS 1978/PASCAL SEBAH/PARIS 1870/VIENNE 1873/PHILADELPHIA 1877/CONSTPLE/RUE DE PERA 439/a cote de l’Ambassade Russe/LE CAIRE/sur/LESBEKIEH”
- Department: Photography
- Culture: Turkey
- Credit Line: Collection of Herbert Ascherman, Jr.
- Collection: Photography
- Accession Number: 2017.28
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