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The Hippodrome of Constantinople. In the background the Obelisks of the Byzantine Emperors Theodosius II and Constantine VII. On the left the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I.

View of the Agios Markos square, Zakynthos.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Bell towers, Children, Church of Hagios Markos (Zakynthos), Churches, Dogs, Greece, Horses, Houses, Human types, Ionian islands, Natural environment, Views, Women, Zakynthos

View of Philatrea in Peloponnese.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Children, Churches, Filiatra, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Houses, Human types, Messenia, Natural environment, Oxen, Peloponnese, Views, Women

Albanian family traveling.

Tags: Albanians, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Human types, Jewellery, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Social sphere and everyday life, Tufeks (firearm), Weapons, Women

The Monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Bell towers, Children, Christian priests, Church of the Dormition / Monastery of the Assumption (Hydra), Churches, Greece, Human types, Hydra, Islands, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Natural environment, Rites of passage, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Turkish mausoleums and funerary steles in the Peloponnese.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Children, Funerary monuments, Funerary steles, Greece, Human types, Mausoleums, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman mausoleums, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Peloponnese

Costumes of Cythera. Orthodox priest is leading a group of women to the church.

Tags: Children, Christian priests, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cythera, Greece, Ionian islands, Natural environment, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Orthodox priest guides a gentleman of west European origin into the interior section of a rock-cut mausoleum in Palaiopolis, Cythera.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Children, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cythera, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Funerary monuments, Greece, Human types, Ionian islands, Mausoleums, Palaiopolis (Cythera), Social sphere and everyday life

The illumination of New Mosque at Eminönü.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Children, Dogs, Eminönü, Golden Horn, Human types, Istanbul, Mosques, New Mosque (Yeni Camii / Valide Sultan Camii), Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Thrace, Turkey

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

The Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Choregic monuments, Columns / Pillars, Corinthian order, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Social sphere and everyday life

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

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

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

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.

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

View of Mystras.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Children, Donkeys, Greece, Human types, Laconia, Mosques, Mystras, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Women

Acropolis of Athens, taken near the Pnyx, or Ancient Forum.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient agorae, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Children, Greece, Human types, Pnyx, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Gulf of Lepanto, from above Patras. Ancient Patrae.

Tags: Aetolia and Acarnania, Architecture and built environment, Central Greece, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dance, Greece, Human types, Musical instruments, Natural environment, Patras, Social sphere and everyday life, Views, Women

Eleusis, & part of the island of Salamis.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Birds, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Eleusis, Goats, Greece, Gulls, Human types, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Natural environment, Salamis, Women

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

Woman from Dalmatia. Woman with infant.

Tags: Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dalmatia, Dalmatians, Ethnic groups, Human types, Shoes and footwear, Women

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

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.

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