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Streetlet at Bayn al-Qasrayn quarter, Cairo.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Bayn al-Qasrayn (Cairo), Beggars, Cairo, Camels, Carpets, Children, Commerce, Costume - Hats and headwear, Donkeys, Egypt, Equids, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Fountains / Springs, Fruit, Hookahs, Houses, Human types, Shops, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
Galata bridge, Istanbul. In the background, the mosque of Valide Sultan or New Mosque.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Boats and ships, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Golden Horn, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Mosques, New Mosque (Yeni Camii / Valide Sultan Camii), Porters, Professions, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Umbrellas / Parasols, Views
Title page. Inset plate: The author and his companions prepare their dinner at Vourlias, a famous inn on the route from Tripolis to Sparta, close to Mystras.
Tags: Arcadia, Authors, Baskets, British, Cooking, Costume - Hats and headwear, Edward Giffard, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Greeks, Inn of Vourlias, Inns, Laconia, Peloponnese, Social sphere and everyday life, Sparta, Title page, Travel, Travellers, Tripoli (Peloponnese), Turks
Scene at the Egyptian or Spice Bazaar of Istanbul.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Economic activity, Egyptian or Spice Bazaar of Istanbul (Mısır Çarşısı), Flowers, Human types, Istanbul, Itinerant traders, Merchants, Ottoman monuments, Professions, Shops, Social sphere and everyday life, Street markets and bazaars, Thrace, Turkey
View of the town of Corfu. In the foreground the Venetian fortification. In the background the New Fortress.
Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Baskets, Boats and ships, Castles and fortresses, Children, Churches, Corfu, Donkeys, Equids, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Greece, Houses, Human types, Ionian islands, New Fortress (Corfu), Priests, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Venetian architecture, Venetian monuments, Views, Women
Church at Oropos where, according to popular legend, the brigand brothers Arvanitakis attended mass together with the British travellers they had taken captive (Dilesi murders, 1870).
Tags: Animals, Arvanitakis brothers (brigands), Attica, Baskets, Boats and ships, Brigands, Central Greece, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dilessi murders (1870), Divine Liturgy / Holy Communion, Equids, Greece, History, Human types, Oropos, Religious practices, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations
Greek women doing household tasks.
Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Baskets, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Embroidery, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Furniture, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Shoes and footwear, Social sphere and everyday life, Women
Imaginary reconstruction of ancient Sparta.
Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Sparta, Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Baskets, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Houses, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Laconia, Mount Taygetus, Mountains, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Sparta, Women
Athens seen from the ancient Sacred Way. In the middleground, the Acropolis. In the background, Mount Hymettus.
Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Baskets, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Greece, Horses, Human types, Hymettus, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Mountains, Parthenon, Sacred Way (Attica), Sculptures, Views
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