Description
Two boys rests on a rock in the foreground of the photograph, after taking a swim in the Bosporus Strait in front of the Dolmabahçe Palace on the other side of the water in Constantinople, Turkey. The strait and the palace fill the entire back of the photograph. A sailing ship with its sails full of wind, approaches the palace. The city climbs the hill behind the palace. Printed in handwritten white ink along the bottom of the photograph, "N 97. Vue générale du Palais Impérial'a Dolma-Bagtcꜧé, Boşphore. Şébah & Joaillier."