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The author meets inhabitants of Taganrog in Russia.

Tags: Animals, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Horses, Human types, Russia, Russians, Sea of Azov, Taganrog, Tatars, Travel, Weapons, Writers

Scene from the author's journey from Saint Petersburg to Odessa.

Tags: Animals, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Horses, Houses, Human types, Nobility, Russia, Russians, Saint Petersburg, Travel, Writers

Portrait of Lord Byron.

Tags: Author portraits, Costume - Hats and headwear, Europeans, Lord Byron, Nobility, Writers

The ruins of the Roman villa of Venulei, near the Lake Massaciuccoli, in Italy.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Italy, Massaciuccoli, Roman houses, Roman monuments, Tuscany, Views, Writers

The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens. Plan of the monument.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Europeans, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Human types, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Writers

View and plan of buildings at Baalbeck (anc. Heliopolis).

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Baalbek / anc. Heliopolis, Costume - Hats and headwear, Europeans, Human types, Lebanon, Roman monuments, Writers

View of the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbeck (anc. Heliopolis).

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Baalbek / anc. Heliopolis, Corinthian order, Europeans, Human types, Lebanon, Roman monuments, Temple of Bacchus (Baalbek), Writers

Map showing the places from which A. I. Melling made the drawings accompanying his work.

Tags: Antoine Ignace Melling, Istanbul, Maps, Turkey, Writers

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

1. The island of Kea according to Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century CE). 2. The island of Kea according to Cr. Buondelmonti (15th century CE).

Tags: Aegean sea, Claudius Ptolemy, Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Cyclades, Greece, Johannes Angelus, Kea, Maps, Writers

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 author and a sailor at the bow of their boat.

Tags: Aegean islands, Boats and ships, Costume - Hats and headwear, Cyclades, Europeans, Greece, Human types, Sailors, Social sphere and everyday life, Travel, Writers

Roman inscription from Athens, as transcribed by Jacob Spon.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Inscriptions, Writers

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