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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 Istanbul from Bulgurlu hill at Üsküdar. In the foreground two west European men, one of whom is most probably the author himself, are chatting with Ottoman men.

Tags: Animals, Antoine Ignace Melling, Architecture and built environment, Beyoğlu / gr. Pera -Stavrodromi, Boats and ships, Bosporus, Byzantine architecture, Byzantine monuments, Byzantine walls, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Galata tower (Galata kulesi), Golden Horn, Hagia Sophia (Istanbul), Horses, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Mihrimah Sultan Camii), Mosque of Abdülmecid (Büyük Mecidiye Camii), Mosque of Suleiman I / Süleymaniye Mosque (Süleymaniye Camii), Natural environment, Nobility, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottoman palaces, Ottoman shipyards of Kasımpaşa, Ottomans, Oxen, Peasants, Professions, Sarayburnu / Seraglio Point, Shepherds, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Sultan Ahmed Mosque / Blue Mosque ( Sultan Ahmet Camii), Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Turkey, Üsküdar / gr. Scutari / anc. Chrysopolis, Views, Writers

Statue of Artemis in Oitylo (Mani).

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Artemis, Dogs, Greece, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Inscriptions, Laconia, Mani, Oitylo, Peloponnese, Sculptures

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

Morait nomad in his summer camp.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Flutes, Goats, Greece, Human types, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Nomads, Peloponnese, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life

Cottage in Monemvasia.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Dogs, Houses, Human types, Laconia, Monemvasia, Natural environment, Oxen, Peloponnese, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

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 colossal vase near Limassol in Cyprus.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Animals, Art and antiquities, Cyprus, Dogs, Human types, Limassol, Natural environment, Ottomans, Oxen, Reliefs, Roman art, Social sphere and everyday life

Ottoman butcher feeds street cats.

Tags: Animals, Butchers, Cats, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Economic activities, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Ottomans, Professions, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey

Military quarters of the Knights Hospitaller in Rhodes.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Barracks of the Knights Hospitaller (Rhodes), Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Dogs, Greece, Medieval monuments, 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

Fresco of young knight Dieudonné de Gozon, later Grand Master of Knights Hospitaller. The knight kills the dragon with the aid of his two dogs. Rottiers claims to have seen the fresco in an Ottoman house in the medieval city of Rhodes.

Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Dieudonné de Gozon, Dodecanese, Dogs, Dragons, Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller, Greece, Horses, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Mythical beings, Rhodes

View of the Street of the Knights in Rhodes.

Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Dogs, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Human types, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Rhodes, Street of the Knights (Rhodes), Views, Women

Castellania building, medieval town of Rhodes.

Tags: Aegean islands, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Castellany (Rhodes), Coats of arms – Emblems, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dodecanese, Dogs, Greece, Human types, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Rhodes, Smoking, Views

Husband flays his adulterous wife alive and puts her skin on display as an example to others.

Tags: Adultery, Animals, Azerbaijan, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Interiors, Persia / Iran, Persians, Şamaxı-Shamachy, Torture, Women

Atlas from the Temple of Zeus at Agrigento, Sicily.

Tags: Agrigento, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Atlas statues of Agrigento, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Italy, Ruins, Sicily, Southern Italy, Temple of Zeus (Agrigento)

The monument of Philopappus in Athens. James Stuart, Nicholas Revett, James Dawkins and Robert Wood are studying the monument. The Janissary who escorts them is preparing coffee. A shepherd with his goats. The Saronic gulf in the background.

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Coffee, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Goats, Greece, James Dawkins, James Stuart, Monument of Philopappus, Nicholas Revett, Portraits, Robert Wood, Shepherds, Smoking

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.

View of the temple of Rome and Augustus and the adjacent temple of Diana in Pula, Croatia. Between the two temples is situated the Communal Palace of Pula and the city prison. Next to the building, a guard and locals who are playing a game of marbles. In the middle ground, a soldier of Slavic ethnicity conversing with a young woman. On the left, a Polish woman with her donkey and small dog.

Interior view of the Roman amphitheatre of Pula. Due to an epidemics among the livestock of the region, the consumption of lamb and mutton has been forbidden. Shepherds of Slavic ethnicity have sought refuge within the amphitheatre, with their herds. A monk of the order of Saint Anthony, patron of animals according to several traditions, is giving his blessing and sprinkling the sheep with holy water; this terrifies the flock and causes the dogs to bark at the monk. On the right, some weapons, which Slav inhabitants of the area always carry with them, according to the author.

General view of the Corinthian shore. As seen from a height approaching Vostizza.

Tags: Achaia, Animals, Boats and ships, Corinthian gulf, Dogs, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Views

Athens. From the East.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Dogs, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Parthenon, Views

Temple of Jupiter Olympus, Athens.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Dogs, Greece, Horses, Human types, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Riders

The Caryatids at Erechtheion.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Central Greece, Dogs, Greece, Human types

Greek Orthodox inhabitants of Jerusalem. An Orthodox priest.

Tags: Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greeks, Holy Land, Human types, Israel, Judaea, Monks, Palestine, Priests

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.

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

South view of the Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra) in Athens. The figures represent the Vaiwode, or Turkish Governor of Athens, with some of its attendants on a hunting party.

General view of Athens from Hadrian's Aqueduct (Dexameni) in Athens.

Tags: Animals, Aqueduct of Hadrian /Dexameni (Athens), Archers, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Horses, Ottoman officials, Ottomans

Pass on the road from Argos to Corinth.

Tags: Animals, Argolis, Corinthia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Views, Weapons

View of river Inachus.

Tags: Animals, Argolis, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Economic activities, Goats, Greece, Human types, Husbandry, Inachus river, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life

Coast of Triphylia from the South.

Tags: Animals, Arcadia, Architecture and built environment, Dogs, Goats, Greece, Kyparissia, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Triphylia, Views

The remains of ancient Sicyon, from the ancient theatre.

Tags: Ancient theatre of Sicyon, Ancient theatres, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corinthia, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Sicyon, Views

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