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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 the Sweet Waters of Asia, on the Asiatic shores of the Bosporus. In the background the Anatolian Castle.
Tags: Anatolian Castle / Anadolu Hisari, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Bosporus, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Horses, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Küçüksu fountain (Küçüksu Çeşmesi), Mihrişah Valide Sultan Fountain (Mihrişah Valide Sultan Çeşmesi), Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Ottoman architecture, Ottoman monuments, Ottomans, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Sweet waters of Asia / Göksu Deresi / byz. Potamion, Tents, Turkey, Views
Musicians at the Asian valley of Sweet Waters.
Tags: Animals, Carpets, Carriages, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Istanbul, Leisure spaces, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Oxen, Social sphere and everyday life, Sweet waters of Asia / Göksu Deresi / byz. Potamion, Turkey, 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
Kastellorizo: Lycian sarcophagi near Castel Rosso.
Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Birds, Costume - Hats and headwear, Donkeys, Flutes, Funerary monuments, Greece, Gulls, Human types, Islands, Kastellorizo (Megisti) island, Lycian sarcophagi, Musical instruments, Musicians, Natural environment, Ottomans, Sarcophagi, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life
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
View of Ilissus river and the partialy destroyed bridge which led to the Panathenaic Stadium. A group of shepherds with their flock prepare to spend the night at the site.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Bovids, Bridge of Ilissus, Bridges, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Goats, Greece, Husbandry, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Professions, Roman monuments, Sheep, Shepherds, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens.
Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Music, Musicians, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Odeons, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Oxen, Parthenon, Professions, Roman architecture, Roman monuments, Shepherds, Women
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