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Dervishes of the Order of Mevlevi at the teke of Pera (Beyoğlu) in Istanbul.

Tags: Beyoğlu / gr. Pera -Stavrodromi, Britons, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dervishes, Ethnic groups, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Ottomans, Quranic inscriptions, Religious practices, Social sphere and everyday life, Teke of Pera, Thrace, Turkey, Women

The Grand Vizier giving audience to the English Ambassador.

Tags: Ambassadors, Britons, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Gifts, Grand Viziers, Human types, Istanbul, Ottoman officials, Ottomans, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thrace, Turkey

The Ottoman Sultan giving audience to the English Ambassador.

Tags: Ambassadors, Books, Britons, Carpets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Gifts, Human types, Istanbul, Ottoman officials, Ottomans, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Sultans, Thrace, Turkey

View of the British hospital of Thessaloniki. Portraits of surgeons and administrative personnel of the Hospital. From The Graphic, 18 May 1878.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, British Hospital of Thessaloniki, Britons, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Hospitals, Macedonia, Physicians, Portraits, Professions, Thessaloniki, Views

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

The entrance to the Great Pyramis.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Britons, Cairo, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian monuments, Egyptians, Ethnic groups, Giza, Human types, Pyramid of Cheops (Giza), Pyramids, Pyramids of Giza

The Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Britons, Cairo, Costume - Hats and headwear, Egypt, Egyptian monuments, Egyptians, Ethnic groups, Giza, Horses, Human types, Pyramids, Pyramids of Giza, Sphinx (Egypt)

The Parthenon (West Front).

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Britons, Central Greece, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Human types, Parthenon, Views

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