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Imaginary representation of Faliro.

Tags: Attica, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Faliro, Fishermen, Fishing, Greece, Human types, Nets, Professions, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life

View of the Temple of Poseidon, Sounio.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life, Sounion

View of the Temple of Hephaestus (Thiseion), Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Human types, Riders, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

View of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Parthenon, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life

Northwest view of Erechtheion.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Costume - Hats and headwear, Erechtheion, Greece, Greek mythology, Human types, Mosques, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Southeast view of the Parthenon.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Centauromachy, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Metopes, Parthenon, Ruins, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

View of Shiraz in Persia.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Persia / Iran, Shiraz (Şiraz), Views, Walls

Ruins of Persepolis.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Modes of transport, Persepolis, Persia / Iran, Persians

The Palace of the Shah of Persia in Isfahan.

Tags: Ali Qapu Palace, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Isfahan / anc. Aspadana, Modes of transport, Palaces, Persia / Iran, Persians, Views, Women

Husband flays his adulterous wife alive and puts her skin on display as an example to others.

Tags: Adultery, Animals, Azerbaijan, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Interiors, Persia / Iran, Persians, Şamaxı-Shamachy, Torture, Women

Samakhi in modern-day Azerbaijan.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Azerbaijan, Camels, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Horses, Modes of transport, Persia / Iran, Persians, Şamaxı-Shamachy, Social sphere and everyday life, Views, Walls

View of Mount Ararat.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Mount Ararat / Ağrı Dağı, Pack animals, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey, Views

Tatars of Kirgisia. Kalmyk Tatar.

Tags: Animals, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Horses, Human types, Kalmykia, Kirgisia / Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Shoes and footwear, Tatars, Weapons, Women

Cozak chief Stenka Razin throws the Russian princess he had married into the Volga, as related in the folk legend.

Tags: Boats and ships, Cossacks, Costume - Hats and headwear, History, Portraits, Rivers, Russia, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Stenka Razin, Volga river, Weapons, Women

View of Delos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Horses, Views

Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus): Entrance.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Argolis, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Greece, Human types, Mycenae, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Tholos tomb of Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus), Views

North east view of the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, near Phigalia.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bassae, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doric order, Eagles, Figaleia, Greece, Human types, Mount Ithome, Peloponnese, Snakes, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae), Views

Atlas from the Temple of Zeus at Agrigento, Sicily.

Tags: Agrigento, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Atlas statues of Agrigento, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Italy, Ruins, Sicily, Southern Italy, Temple of Zeus (Agrigento)

View of the sculptures of the now lost Incantadas monument at the southern entrance of the Roman Agora of Thessaloniki. The sculptures were incorporated in the house of a family of Sephardi Jewish merchants. British consul Paradise, who has come to show John Stuart and Nicholas Revett the monument, meets the owner of the house. A young servant offers the consul a cup of coffee while from above the owner's wife reprimands her husband for not having invited the consul to sit before offering him coffee. On the left, a woman who is spinning approaches the travellers. On the right, Stuart and Revett with the young son of the British consul, who is escorted by the consul's dragoman (interpreter).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Author portraits, Britons, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), James Stuart, Jews, Macedonia, Nicholas Revett, Professions, Roman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Thessaloniki, Travel, Women

The monument of Philopappus in Athens. James Stuart, Nicholas Revett, James Dawkins and Robert Wood are studying the monument. The Janissary who escorts them is preparing coffee. A shepherd with his goats. The Saronic gulf in the background.

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Coffee, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Goats, Greece, James Dawkins, James Stuart, Monument of Philopappus, Nicholas Revett, Portraits, Robert Wood, Shepherds, Smoking

Remains of the portico of the reservoir of the Aqueduct of Hadrian (Dexameni) at the foot of Lycabettus hill. Dairy farm belonging to Arvanites. A woman is milking her goat to make kaymak. A man has come on horseback to buy dairy products. A monk of Hagioi Asomatoi monastery is going to town with his donkey which is carrrying olives and wine. Mount Hymettus and Kaisariani monastery in the background.

The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, from the sanctuary of Ilissus. In the foreground women dancing.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dance, Greece, Women

Landscape on the northern coast of the Corinthian gulf.

Tags: Central Greece, Corinthian gulf, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Views

The area of Lefctro in Messenia. Cape Tainaron in the background.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Lefktro, Messenia, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Tainaron, Views

Every day life scenes in the Greek state.

Tags: Animals, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Human types, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Walhalla, hall of fame that honors laudable and distinguished people and famous personalities in German history, Regensburg.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bavaria, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Danube river, Germany, Human types, Regensburg, Rivers, Scandinavian mythology, Views, Walhalla, Women

The Babacai Rock. According to the legend, the Ottoman governor of Moldavia abandoned his wife on this rock, with the excuse that she committed adultery with some certain noble Hungarian.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Babacai, Boats and ships, Children, Coronini, Costume - Hats and headwear, Danube river, Fortifications and fortresses, Golubac Fortress, Human types, Medieval monuments, Rivers, Romania, Serbia, Views

The armory bazaar in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activities, Human types, Istanbul, Kapalı çarşı /Grand Bazaar, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Soldiers, Street markets and bazaars, Tufeks (firearm), Turkey, Weapons

View of Nikopol, Bulgaria.

Tags: Animals, Birds, Boats and ships, Bulgaria, Costume - Hats and headwear, Danube river, Ducks, Human types, Mosques, Natural environment, Nikopol / anc. Nicopolis, Ottoman monuments, Rivers, Social sphere and everyday life, Views

View of the Castle of Belgrade from Zemun.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Belgrade (Beograd), Belgrade Fortress / Kalemegdan, Boats and ships, Byzantine monuments, Costume - Hats and headwear, Danube river, Fortifications and fortresses, Holy Roman Empire – Habsburg Empire, Human types, Mosques, Rivers, Sava river, Serbia, Slavic monuments, Soldiers, Views

Title page. Scene in the Valley of Sweet Waters.

Tags: Boats and ships, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fountains / Springs, Human types, Istanbul, Leisure, Ottoman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Sweet waters of Europe / Kağithane, Thrace, Title page, Turkey, Women

Frontispiece. Portrait of Sultan Abdülmecid I.

Tags: Abdülmecid I / I. Abdülmecid, Costume - Hats and headwear, Frontispieces, Portraits, Sultans

The arch of the Sergii at Pula, Croatia. Peasants of Slavic ethnicity are walking by with their ox cart. James Stuart, Nicholas Revett and their assistant are on top of the arch, making drawings. On the left a man informs the women gathered that the travellers are searching the Arch of the Sergii for treasures.

View of the temple of Rome and Augustus and the adjacent temple of Diana in Pula, Croatia. Between the two temples is situated the Communal Palace of Pula and the city prison. Next to the building, a guard and locals who are playing a game of marbles. In the middle ground, a soldier of Slavic ethnicity conversing with a young woman. On the left, a Polish woman with her donkey and small dog.

The facade of the Temple of Augustus and Rome in Pula, Croatia. The building on the right is the city prison. On the stairway of the temple, inhabitants of Dignano d'Istria, today Vodnjan, Croatia. In the foreground, locals of Pula, including a fishmonger and his assistant.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Croatia, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Fishermen, Fishing, Istria, Professions, Pula / anc. Polai, Roman monuments, Scales, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Rome and Augustus (Pula), Vodnjan / Dignano d'Istria, Women

Interior view of the Roman amphitheatre of Pula. Due to an epidemics among the livestock of the region, the consumption of lamb and mutton has been forbidden. Shepherds of Slavic ethnicity have sought refuge within the amphitheatre, with their herds. A monk of the order of Saint Anthony, patron of animals according to several traditions, is giving his blessing and sprinkling the sheep with holy water; this terrifies the flock and causes the dogs to bark at the monk. On the right, some weapons, which Slav inhabitants of the area always carry with them, according to the author.

Mount Helicon.

Tags: Boeotia, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Natural environment

Mountains of Epirus, as seen from sea nearly opposite to Parga.

Tags: Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Epirus, Greece, Human types, Sailors, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Views

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