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View of the street of the Knights in Rhodes.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Dodecanese, Greece, Medieval monuments, Rhodes, Street of the Knights (Rhodes)

View of the chuch of Saint John in Rhodes, at the entrance to the Street of the Knights.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Churches, Dodecanese, Greece, Medieval monuments, Rhodes, Street of the Knights (Rhodes)

View of Naillac tower in the port of Rhodes. The tower was built at the time of Grand Master Filibert de Naillac (early 15th century), next to the Gate of Saint Paul, yet demolished in the mid-19th century.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Dodecanese, Greece, Medieval monuments, Naillac tower, Ports, Rhodes, Towers, Views

View of the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina.

Tags: Aegina, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Doric order, Greece, Islands of the Argo-saronic gulf, Temple of Aphaia (Aegina)

View of the Acropolis from the Pnyx.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Parthenon

View of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Parthenon, Temple of Zeus (Olympia), Views

View of Cenchreae.

Tags: Acrocorinth, Argo-Saronic gulf, Boats and ships, Cenchreae / Kechries, Greece, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Views

View of Corinth.

Tags: Acrocorinth, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Corinth, Greece, Peloponnese, Views

View of the location where Lord Byron died.

Tags: Aetolia and Acarnania, Central Greece, Greece, History, Lord Byron, Missolonghi, Views

View of cape Lefkada.

Tags: Greece, Ionian islands, Lefkada, Natural environment, Views

View of the ancient theatre of Nicopolis.

Tags: Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Epirus, Greece, Nicopolis (Epirus)

View of ancient theatre in Epirus.

Tags: Ancient theatres, Art and antiquities, Epirus, Greece, Views

View of Dodoni.

Tags: Dodoni, Epirus, Greece, Views

View of Zitsa.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Epirus, Greece, Views, Zitsa

View of Palaiopolis in Corfu.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Corfu, Greece, Ionian islands, Views

Title page.

Tags: Title page

The new barracks of the bombardiers and miners.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Istanbul, Thrace, Turkey, Views

The Sublime Porte of Top Kapi palace in Istanbul.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Istanbul, Ottoman palaces, Palaces, Thrace, Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı), Turkey, Views

A colonel of the Janissaries.

Tags: Human types, Istanbul, Janissaries, Military officers, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Thrace, Turkey

A Sultana.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Human types, Istanbul, Ottoman officials, Shoes and footwear, Sultanas, Thrace, Turkey

A Turkish woman.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Istanbul, Shoes and footwear, Thrace, Turkey, Turks, Women

View of Tophana or the Artillery Arsenal at Constantinople.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Bosporus, Imperial armoury / Tophane-i Amire, Istanbul, Thrace, Tophane, Turkey, Views

The western half of the Hellespontian Phrygia.

Tags: Asia Minor, Maps, Mysia, Troy, Turkey

A turkish female slave playing at the Dulcimer.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Human types, Shoes and footwear, Turkey, Turks, Women

A Greek lady in her walking dress.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greeks, Human types, Istanbul, Shoes and footwear, Thrace, Turkey, Women

The village of Marathon with a distant view of the plain.

Tags: Animals, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Marathon, Natural environment, Views

The relief of Archedemos in Vari Cave.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Reliefs, Sculptures, Vari, Vari Cave

South east angle of the Parthenon.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Parthenon, Views

The west front of the Acropolis from the summits of the Propylaea.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Views

The remains of the Temple of Olympian Zeus and the southeast angle of the Acropolis and the Parthenon.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Parthenon

Athens from the foor of Anchesmus [Lycabettus].

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Human types, Professions, Shepherds, Views

View of the Valley of the Plistus [Pleistos] with part of the Gulph of Salona [Itea].

Tags: Central Greece, Greece, Natural environment, Phocis, Pleistos, Views

Remains of the Stadium at Delphi, the village of Castri and the Castalian summits of the Parnassus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Castalian spring, Central Greece, Delphi, Greece, Human types, Mount Parnassus, Mountains, Phocis

An Albanian.

Tags: Albania, Albanians, Ethnic groups, Human types

A dancing girl.

Tags: Dance, Epirus, Greece, Human types, Jewellery, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Map of Albania and Epirus.

Tags: Albania, Epirus, Maps

Title page.

Tags: Title page

Relief of Nekrodeipnon (funeral symposium in honour of the deceased).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Reliefs

Hadrian's Library in Athens: Plan and elevation of the ruins on which part of the church of Megali Panagia was built. 1. Elevation of ancient arcade 2. Plan showing the ruins of ancient structures within the church. 3. Mouldings and impost of the ancient arcade within the church. 4. Section of the architrave supported by the columns and pilaster adjacent to the church. 4. Capital of the pilaster.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Plans and drawings

Hadrian's Library in Athens: Fig. 1. The plan of the capital. Fig. 2. The angular view of the capital.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

Hadrian's Library in Athens: 1. The capital and entablature of the columns on the front of the building. 2. Section of the capital. 3. Bottom plan of mouldings. 4. Architrave of the interior of the portal and moulding of the abacus of the capital, continued underneath the architrave.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

Hadrian's Library in Athens: 1. The base of one of the four fluted columns of the portal. Fig. 2. The cornice of the lateral walls and of the exhedrae. Fig. 3. The architrave of the gate-way or entrance before which the portal in the middle of the front is placed. Fig.4. A section of the aforesaid architrave.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

Hadrian's Library in Athens: 1. The elevation of the portal of Hadrian's Library and the facade to the north of the portal. 2. A section of the front wall with a profile of the portal and the southern pteroma, with one of the columns between the portal and the northern pteroma. 3. Hadrian's Library in Athens: The section of the portal and of the gate-way of entrance before which it is placed. 4. Part of the external face of the lateral wall or flank of this building.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

Plan of Hadrian's Library, Athens. The remaning part is shaded in the drawing.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), Plans and drawings, Roman architecture, Roman monuments

Hadrian's Library, seen from the house of Nikolaos Logothetis, consul of Britain in Athens. In the foreground, the soap mills, an Ottoman aga receiving a visitor and an Albanian groom.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Ethnic groups, Horses, Houses, Human types, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens), State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations

Relifs from the Choregic Monument of Lycirates in Athens: The story of Dionysus and the Tyrrhenian pirates.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Reliefs

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: Fig. 1. The flower on the top of the tholus or cupola. Fig. 2. The plan of the upper surface of the flower. Fig. 3. A perpendicular section of the top of the flower, made through the line A, B, C of the preceding figure.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Plans and drawings

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: Fig. 1. A quarter of the upper surface of the Tholus or Cupola. Fig. 2. A section of the cupola made on the line CD of the foregoing figure. Fig. 3. A section of part of the cupola on the line EF. Fig. 4. A section of the helix or scrol marked A in Fig. 1, and 2. Fig. 5. represents the remains of the vitruvian scrols.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Plans and drawings

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: The plan reversed, and the sections of the capital, with the elevation of half the unfinished part of the capital.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Plans and drawings

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: The external face of the capital, with the entablature, and half one of the tripods.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Greece, Plans and drawings, Reliefs

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