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Dance on the west bank of the Nile. On the foreground, two French travellers. The governors of the small vessels are smoking and drinking coffee while sitting on the ground, as are doing two dervishes and their servants farther away. According to Olivier's description, the scene depicts Egyptians dancing a war dance and a more sensual dance.
Tags: Beauty care, Boats and ships, Coffee, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dance, Dervishes, Egypt, Egyptian dances, Egyptians, Ethnic groups, French, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Percussion instruments, Priests, Professions, Servants, Ship captains, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel
Composition: Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens together with the port of Faliro, close to Piraeus.
Tags: Argo-Saronic gulf, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Christian priests, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Dancers, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Faliro, Greece, Greeks, Houses, Human types, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Ottomans, Ports, Ruins, Social sphere and everyday life
View of Büyükdere, on the European shores of the Bosporus. In the foreground, Ottoman men dancing on a boat.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Bosporus, Büyükdere / byz. Bathyrrhyax, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Horses, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Natural environment, Nobility, Ottoman architecture, Ottomans, Sarıyer, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Views, Women
View of Kandili on the Asiatic shores of the Bosporus. In the foreground some Ottoman men are dancing, while others are enjoying their coffee.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Bosporus, Coffee, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Human types, Istanbul, Kandilli, Leisure spaces, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Pleasure pavilions, Smoking, Turkey, Views
View of Kandili on the Asiatic shores of the Bosporus. In the foreground, Ottoman women dancing. On the left the Anatolian Castle.
Tags: Anatolian Castle / Anadolu Hisari, Art and antiquities, Boats and ships, Bosporus, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Human types, Istanbul, Kandilli, Leisure spaces, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Smoking, Turkey, Views, Women
View of Kadıköy. In the background Maiden's Tower and part of the Seraglio Point.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Dance, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Kadıköy /anc. Chalcedon, Nobility, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Tower of Leander (Kız kulesi), Turkey, Views
View of the Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Athens
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Coats of arms – Emblems, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Greece, Houses, Human types, Jewellery, Musical instruments, Musicians, Nobility, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
The Hippodrome of Constantinople.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Carriages, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Hippodrome of Constantinople / At Meydanı, Human types, Istanbul, Itinerant traders, Janissaries, Military officers, Obelisk of Theodosius I, Smoking, Sultan Ahmed Mosque / Blue Mosque ( Sultan Ahmet Camii), Tents, Thrace, Views, Women
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