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Castellania building, medieval town of Rhodes.
Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Author portraits, Bernard Eugène Antoine Rottiers, Castellany (Rhodes), Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Portraits, Rhodes, Views
View of the Choregic Monument of Thrasyllus (Church of Panagia Spiliotissa). Mount Hymettus in the background; at its feet the church of Agios Georgios Alexandrinos. The domed building on the right is the church of Agia Paraskevi, and between the church and the rock stands the metochion of Agioi Asomatoi monastery. The people gathered are waiting for the priest who is going to perform the service at Panagia Spiliotissa.
Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Choregic monuments, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Hagia Paraskevi (South Slope of Acropolis), Hagios Georgios of Alexandria, Metochion of Hagioi Asomatoi Monastery, Women
The library of Hadrian seen from the house of Nikolaos Logothetis, consul of Britain in Athens. In the foreground, the soap mills. An Ottoman aga receiving a visitor; an Albanian groom.
Tags: Albanians, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Flower pots, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Greeks, Horses, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Lycabettus, Mills, Ottoman officials, Ottomans, Professions, Servants, Soap makers
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
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