2-913-722 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Marriage of the Sultan's Daughter - Fete at Baltaliman, 1854. Celebrations at Constantinople for the wedding of Fatma Sultan, aged 14, and Ali Galip Pasha. View of '...one of the bridal fetes, given in the rear of the Palace of Baltaliman, in a large field, where hundreds of tents, in the European style, had been erected...The dancers both play the castanets. The arena is attended by a clown...Spectators crowd round the tent...Musicians, seated on the ground, play guitars, clarionets, tambourines, and sing most uproariously. The same scene takes place before every tent simultaneously or successively throughout the rest of the day...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.