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Temple of Jupiter Olympus, Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Dogs, Greece, Horses, Human types, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Riders

The Caryatids at Erechtheion.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Central Greece, Dogs, Greece, Human types

Ottoman cavalry during the Siege of Rhodes.

Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Ethnic groups, Greece, Horses, Music, Musical instruments, Ottomans, Rhodes, Riders, Siege of Rhodes (1480), State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Turks, Weapons

Greek Orthodox inhabitants of Jerusalem. An Orthodox priest.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greeks, Holy Land, Human types, Israel, Judaea, Monks, Palestine, Priests

View of the Castle of Naples (Castel Nuovo).

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Carriages, Castle of Naples / Castel Nuovo - Maschio Angioino, Castles and fortresses, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Italy, Lighthouses, Mount Vesuvius, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Ports, Social sphere and everyday life, Southern Italy, Volcanoes, Women

View of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens. The horses of the military commander of Athens grazing at the site of the scene.

Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Grooms, Horses, James Stuart, Monument of Philopappus, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Philopappos Hill / Mouseion Hill, Professions

View of the Erechtheion. Workmen excavating to reveal the base of the prostasis underneath the Caryatids. Ottoman official Dizdar Aǧa is leaning on his son-in-law's shoulder while two other Ottomans are supervising the excavations in order to keep him informed and to ensure that the British are not carrying away the archaeological findings. On the foreground a man, probably James Stuart, drawing the monument.

The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens, with the Acropolis in the background.
Seikh Mustafa, chief of the order of Whirling Dervishes, who used the monument as their tekije (dervish lodge), is standing at the entrance of the monument, leaning on a staff, with his back turned.
In the foreground, a woman from an affluent family is promenading with her daughters and maidservant.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dervishes, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Horses, Human types, Ottomans, Priests, Women

South view of the Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra) in Athens. The figures represent the Vaiwode, or Turkish Governor of Athens, with some of its attendants on a hunting party.

General view of Athens from Hadrian's Aqueduct (Dexameni) in Athens.

Tags: Animals, Aqueduct of Hadrian /Dexameni (Athens), Archers, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Horses, Ottoman officials, Ottomans

Pass on the road from Argos to Corinth.

Tags: Animals, Argolis, Corinthia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Views, Weapons

Scenery on the Road from Nauplia to Corinth.

Tags: Animals, Argolis, Corinthia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Goats, Greece, Horses, Human types, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Views, Weapons, Women

Scene in the Arachnean Mountain near Argos.

Tags: Animals, Arachnean mountain, Argolis, Argos, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Human types, Mountains, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Views

View of river Inachus.

Tags: Animals, Argolis, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Economic activities, Goats, Greece, Human types, Husbandry, Inachus river, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life

Tripolisa.

Tags: Agricultural tasks, Animals, Arcadia, Architecture and built environment, Bovids, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Houses, Human types, Peloponnese, Tripoli (Peloponnese), Views, Weapons

The summits of Ithome and Agios Vasileios.

Tags: Animals, Birds, Greece, Ithome, Messenia, Mount Agios Vasileios (Ithome), Mountains, Natural environment, Pamisos river, Pelicans, Peloponnese, Rivers, Views

View of Pamisos river.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Messenia, Natural environment, Pamisos river, Peloponnese, Rivers, Views

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Arcadia, Art and antiquities, Doric order, Figaleia, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Sheep, Shepherds, Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae)

Coast of Triphylia from the South.

Tags: Animals, Arcadia, Architecture and built environment, Dogs, Goats, Greece, Kyparissia, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Triphylia, Views

Valley of the Alpheus, from Erymanthus.

Tags: Alfeios river, Animals, Bovids, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Husbandry, Mountains, Rivers, Shepherds

The remains of ancient Sicyon, from the ancient theatre.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Sicyon, Ancient theatres, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corinthia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Sicyon, Views

The site of ancient Pharae, Kalamata.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Greece, Kalamata, Messenia, Natural environment, Oxen, Peloponnese, Sheep, Views

Ruins at Ephesus.

Tags: Animals, Aqueducts, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Camels, Ephesus, Lydia, Turkey

Town of Zakynthus.

Tags: Agricultural tasks, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Bovids, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Ionian islands, Natural environment, Zakynthos

Convent in the Interior of Corfu - from a sketch by Purser.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Christian priests, Corfu, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Greece, Human types, Husbandry, Ionian islands, Monasteries, Natural environment, Priests, Religious practices, Sheep, Shepherds

Greek priests.

Tags: Animals, Children, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Priests, Religious practices, Women

Mounts of Naupactia.

Tags: Aetolia and Acarnania, Animals, Bovids, Carriages, Central Greece, Greece, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Naupactia, Views

Turkish horsemen.

Tags: Animals, Epirus, Ethnic groups, Greece, Horses, Ottomans, Preveza, Riders, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations

Lefkada and the coast of Epirus.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Greece, Human types, Ionian islands, Lefkada, Natural environment, Views, Women

Pharsalus, according to a sketch by Daniel.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Castle of Pharsala, Castles and fortresses, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Houses, Natural environment, Pharsala, Thessaly, Views

Vale of Tempe.

Tags: Animals, Birds, Greece, Natural environment, Storks, Thessaly, Vale of Tempi, Views

Vale of Tempe.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Goats, Greece, Human types, Husbandry, Natural environment, Shepherds, Thessaly, Vale of Tempi, Views

Cliffs at Meteora.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Greece, Meteora, Monasteries, Natural environment, Thessaly, Views, Wild goat (Capra aegagrus)

View of Pineios river and Pindus mountain range.

Tags: Animals, Camels, Greece, Mount Pindus, Mountains, Natural environment, Pineios river, Rivers, Thessaly, Views

Mounts Olympus and Ossa, from the plains of Thessaly.

Tags: Agricultural tasks, Animals, Bovids, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Peasants, Pineios river, Rivers, Thessaly, Views

Plains of Thessaly.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Horses, Human types, Natural environment, Thessaly, Views

Plains of Chaeronea.

Tags: Animals, Boeotia, Central Greece, Chaeronea, Greece, History, Horses, Human types, Natural environment

Plains of Chaeronea, from the walls of Panopeus.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Chaeronea, Goats, Greece, Human types, Panopeus / mod. Agios Vlasios (Boeotia), Professions, Smoking, Walls

Pinnacle of Mount Parnassus.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Goats, Greece, Houses, Mount Parnassus, Mountains, Natural environment, Phocis, Weapons

Ottoman fountain near Ilissus.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Athens, Attica, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Human types, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Rivers, Social sphere and everyday life, Views, Weapons, Women

The putative cenotaph of Euripides on the road from Athens to Piraeus.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cenotaph of Euripides, Dogs, Greece

The Gate of Athena Archegetis in the Roman Agora of Athens.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Donkeys, Greece, Human types, Modes of transport, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

View of the Propylaea.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Goats, Greece, Parthenon, Propylaea of the Acropolis

The Temple of Aphaia, Aegina.

Tags: Aegina, Ancient temples, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Doric order, Goats, Greece, Husbandry, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Natural environment, Shepherds, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

View of Aegina.

Tags: Aegina, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Greece, Human types, Husbandry, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Natural environment, Shepherds, Views

The ruins of the ancient theatre of Thoricus.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Thoricus, Ancient theatres, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Goats, Greece, Husbandry, Sheep, Shepherds, Thorikos

Statue of the Lion at Mount Hymettus.

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horses, Human types

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