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Armenian cemetery in Istanbul.

Tags: Armenian cemetery, Armenian graves, Armenians, Boats and ships, Cemeteries, Ethnic groups, Funerary monuments, Human types, Istanbul, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Interior view of flour mill at Lapseki.

Tags: Animals, Asia Minor, Baskets, Dardanelles / Çanakkale boğazı / anc. Hellespont, Ethnic groups, Flour mills, Horses, Human types, Lapseki / anc. Lampsacus, Mysia, Turkey, Views, Women

View of Gelibolu.

Tags: Aqueducts, Boats and ships, Fountains / Springs, Gelibolu / Galliboli, Human types, Mosques, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Smoking, Thrace, Turkey, Views, Women

View of an ancient monument, possibly of Roman or Byzantine aqueduct, at Gelibolu.

Tags: Animals, Aqueducts, Art and antiquities, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Carriages, Economic activities, Gelibolu / Galliboli, Horses, Human types, Ottomans, Professions, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Thrace, Turkey, Women

View of the grand mosque and the bazaar of Gelibolu.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bazaar of Gallipoli (Gelibolu), Economic activities, Ethnic groups, Fountains / Springs, Gelibolu / Galliboli, Human types, Mosques, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Professions, Smoking, Street markets and bazaars, Thrace, Turkey, Women

A Caramanian family changing its abode.

Tags: Animals, Asia Minor, Caramania, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Horses, Human types, Natural environment, Nomads, Ottomans, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel, Turkey, Women

Woman of Caramania carrying her baby. Behind follows her daughter, carrying a bowl of water.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Caramania, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Human types, Ottomans, Sarcophagi, Social sphere and everyday life, Spinning, Turkey, Women

Servant offering sweets to woman of the Harem.

Tags: Coffee, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Harem, Human types, Istanbul, Servants, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

The Haseki Sultana at her quarters (Harem).

Tags: Beauty care, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Haseki Sultan, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Ottoman palaces, Servants, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Women at a public bath (hamam).

Tags: Baths (Hamam), Beauty care, Costume - Hats and headwear, Healthcare, Istanbul, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Women

Woman reading.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Musical instruments, Women

Woman reposing.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Natural environment, Women

Turks doing their prayers.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Muslim prayer, Ottomans, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey, Women

Ottoman lady smoking.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Jewellery, Natural environment, Smoking, Women

View of the Street of the Knights in Rhodes.

Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Dogs, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Human types, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Rhodes, Street of the Knights (Rhodes), Views, Women

The gate of Saint Catherine at the hospice of Saint Catherine in the medieval town of Rhodes.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Ethnic groups, Gate of Saint Catherine (Rhodes), Gates, Greece, Human types, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Ottomans, Rhodes, Views, Women

The Temple of Rome and Augustus in Pula, Croatia.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Croatia, Donkeys, Houses, Human types, Inscriptions, Nobility, Pula / anc. Polai, Social sphere and everyday life, Temple of Rome and Augustus (Pula), Women

Landscape at Sparta.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Laconia, Natural environment, Ruins, Sparta, Women

Bridge over Ilissus river, Athens. In the background the site of the Panathenaic Stadium.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Bridge of Ilissus, Bridges, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Natural environment, Panathenaic Stadium, Rivers, Social sphere and everyday life, Stadiums, Women

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

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

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 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

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

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

Frontispiece. Allegory of author's voyage.

Tags: Agricultural tools, Alexander Drummond, Architects, Architectural instruments, Art and antiquities, Athens, Author portraits, Boats and ships, Books, Cannons, Central Greece, Frontispieces, Greece, Musical instruments, Pausanias, Weapons, Women

View of Linz in Austria.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Austria, Boats and ships, Bridges, Danube river, Holy Roman Empire – Habsburg Empire, Human types, Rafts, Rivers, Steam ships, Views, 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

View of Budapest from Gellért Hill.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Budapest, Castle of Buda (Budavári Palota), Danube river, Gellért Hill, Human types, Hungary, Rivers, Széchenyi Bridge / Széchenyi lánchíd, Views, Women

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

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.

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