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Frontispiece: Portrait of James Stuart.

Tags: Author portraits, Frontispieces, James Stuart, Portraits

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 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

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.

View of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens. The horses of the military commander of Athens grazing at the site of the scene.

Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Grooms, Horses, James Stuart, Monument of Philopappus, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Philopappos Hill / Mouseion Hill, Professions

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.

Portrait of James Stuart.

Tags: Author portraits, James Stuart

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