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Portrait of the author.

Tags: Author portraits, Melchior Lorichs

Portrait of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq.

Tags: Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq

Portrait of William Shakespeare.

Tags: Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear, William Shakespeare

Portrait of Lord Byron.

Tags: Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Europeans, Lord Byron, Nobility, Writers

Portrait of Julia Pardoe.

Tags: Author portraits

Portrait of the author. Dressed in traditional costume of the East, Thevenot indicates the regions he visited on the map.

Tags: Author portraits, Coats of arms – Emblems, Jean de Thévenot, Maps

Portrait of Bernard Eugène Antoine Rottiers.

Tags: Author portraits, Coats of arms – Emblems, Military officers, Portraits

Byzantine church of Saint Stephen on Agios Stefanos or Monte Smith hill, Rhodes. The author being shown the location.

Tags: Aegean islands, Agavi americana, Architecture and built environment, Author portraits, Bernard Eugène Antoine Rottiers, Byzantine monuments, Church of Hagios Stephanos (Rhodes), Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Ottomans, Plants, Rhodes, Views

Interior of the church of Saint John in Rhodes.The author being shown the location.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Author portraits, Bernard Eugène Antoine Rottiers, Church of Saint John – Collachio (Rhodes), Dodecanese, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Rhodes, Views

Lodge of Saint John in the medieval town of Rhodes. The author being shown the location.

Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Author portraits, Bernard Eugène Antoine Rottiers, Dodecanese, Dogs, Greece, Loggia of St. John (Rhodes), Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Rhodes, Views

The garden of Auvergne in Rhodes. The author being shown the location.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Author portraits, Bernard Eugène Antoine Rottiers, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Lighthouses, Medieval monuments, Mosques, Rhodes, Views, Windmills

The fortifications of the city of Rhodes and the Muslim cemetery seen from the east.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Author portraits, Bernard Eugène Antoine Rottiers, Cemeteries, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Muslim cemeteries, Rhodes, Views, Walls, Windmills

Portrait of Nicholas Revett.

Tags: Author portraits, Nicholas Revett, Portraits

Frontispiece: Portrait of James Stuart.

Tags: Author portraits, Frontispieces, James Stuart, Portraits

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

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

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.

Frontispiece: Portrait of Nicholas Revett.

Tags: Author portraits, Frontispieces, Nicholas Revett, Title page

Portrait of James Stuart.

Tags: Author portraits, James Stuart

Portrait of Salomon Schweigger.

Tags: Author portraits, Salomon Schweigger

Portrait of Salomon Schweigger.

Tags: Author portraits, Salomon Schweigger

Frontispiece: Imaginary landscape. The author composes his work and his companion is drawing.

Tags: Animals, Author portraits, Frontispieces, Painters / Engravers, Portraits, Ruins

Portrait of Comte Choiseul-Gouffier.

Tags: Author portraits, Choiseul-Gouffier

Part of the fortifications of Nea Plevrona, also known as Kyra – Rini castle.

Tags: Aetolia and Acarnania, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Author portraits, Castle of Kyra Rini (Mesolonghi), Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Missolonghi, Nea Plevrona, Ruins, Walls

Portrait of Pierre Belon. Sonnet on Pierre Belon by Guillume Aubert.

Tags: Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Pierre Belon, Portraits

A small boat takes passengers to yacht “Maraquita”.

Tags: Author portraits, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Malta, Modes of transport, Ports, Travel, Valletta

Scenes from O'Hara's journey to Gibraltar. Arrival to Gibraltar.The author meets his brother at the watchhouse in Gibraltar.

Tags: Author portraits, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Gibraltar, Interiors, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Travel, Views

Title page.

Tags: Author portraits, Title page

Self-portrait of Cornelis de Bruyn.

Tags: Author portraits

Self-portrait of Louis Dupré, 1821.

Tags: Author portraits

Caricature by Edward Lear: “The landscape artist escapes with difficulty from an enraged moufflon.”

Tags: Animals, Author portraits, Crete

Caricature by Edward Lear, depicting himself .

Tags: Author portraits, Crete

Sketch depicting Edward Lear playing the piano.

Tags: Author portraits, Crete

Sketch depicting Edward Lear as he climbs the Cretan mountains hagning from the corns of a mouflon (wild sheep) of Crete.

Tags: Animals, Author portraits, Crete, Greece

Portrait of Georgios Kokkalis, assistant to Edward Lear. (Attributed to Edward Lear).

Tags: Author portraits

Caricature by Edward Lear, depicting himself while painting.

Tags: Author portraits, Crete

Edward Lear.

Tags: Author portraits

Modern female costume of the East. Older female costume from Smyrna.

Tags: Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear

Anonymous portrait of James Skene.

Tags: Author portraits, James Skene

Portrait of René Puaux.

Tags: Author portraits, Portraits, René Puaux

Portrait of the author.

Tags: Author portraits

Stademann drawing the panorama of Athens from the Hill of the Nymphs.

Tags: Animals, Athens, Attica, Author portraits, Central Greece, Children, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Greece, Human types, Inscriptions, Nymphs Hill, Painters / Engravers, Views

Portrait of André Thevet.

Tags: Author portraits

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