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Turkish women in 18th century costume having tea in their private quarters.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Coffee, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Furniture, Houses, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Interiors, Istanbul, Jewellery, Musical instruments, Servants, Shoes and footwear, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Thrace, Turkey, Turks, Women
Acam-oglan, young Christian recruited through the devsirme, servant to the Sultan. A Helvaci, pastry confectioner of the imperial palace. A messenger of the Sultan.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Human types, Istanbul, Ottoman court, Ottoman officials, Pastry confectioners / Pastry sellers, Portraits, Professions, Servants, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thrace, Turkey
Ast-chi, a cook. Ast-chi bashi, head cook of the Janissary corps.
Tags: Cooks, Costume - Hats and headwear, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Human types, Interiors, Istanbul, Janissaries, Jewellery, Military uniforms, Ottoman army, Ottoman officials, Portraits, Professions, Servants, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thrace, Turkey
Young couple in gondola, Venice.
Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Doge's Palace / Palazzo Ducale (Venice), Ethnic groups, Everyday objects / Domestic utensils and vessels, Gondolas, Human types, Italy, Piazza San Marco (Venice), Professions, Servants, Social sphere and everyday life, Venetian architecture, Venetian Lagoon, Venetian monuments, Venetians, Veneto, Venice, Women
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
Northeast view of the Erechtheion.
Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Africans, Animals, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Digging tools, Dogs, Drums, Erechtheion, Ethnic groups, Fortifications and fortresses, Greece, Horses, James Stuart, Military officers, Musical instruments, Ottoman officials, Ottomans, Professions, Servants, Sheep, Smoking, Women
The library of Hadrian seen from the house of Nikolaos Logothetis, consul of Britain in Athens. In the foreground, the soap mills. An Ottoman aga receiving a visitor; an Albanian groom.
Tags: Albanians, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Flower pots, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Greeks, Horses, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Lycabettus, Mills, Ottoman officials, Ottomans, Professions, Servants, Soap makers
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.
Tags: Africans, Animals, Ardettus Hill, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greece, Horses, Hunting, Lycabettus, Monastery of Hagioi Asomatoi (Athens), Mount Parnitha, Mount Penteli / Pentelikon, Mountains, Ottoman officials, Ottomans, Professions, Rivers, Roman bridge of Ilissus, Russian church of Athens, Schiste petra, Servants, Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae / Panagia stin Petra (Athens), Voivode of Athens, Weapons
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