JOSEPH-PHILIBERT GIRAULT DE PRANGEY (1804-1892)

132. Constantinople, rue sous le petit champ des morts [probably 1843]

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JOSEPH-PHILIBERT GIRAULT DE PRANGEY (1804-1892)
132. Constantinople, rue sous le petit champ des morts [probably 1843]
daguerreotype
titled and numbered in ink on a label (affixed to verso)
3½ x 3 3/8in. (9 x 8.5cm.)

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Pictured here is a cemetery of note in Constantinople. Called by the French Petit Champ des Morts, and by the English, after them, the 'Little Burying Ground', it is in fact of immense extent. However, this is not a quiet and solemn place. Lying between the various suburbs of Pera, this burial ground is intersected by avenues, which are constantly thronged like public streets. This moving picture of life abstracts much from the solemnity of death, which the secluded solitude of others so strongly impresses.' (Thomas Allom, Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, 2006, p. 52)