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1. Torches. 2. Oil Lamp 3. Lamp stands.

1. Race 2. Horse race. 3. Torch race 4. Chariot race.

Sports of ancient Greece.

Ancient Greek jewellery and other accessories.

Diverse objects.

General view of Athens, charting the main sights and monuments. Salamis, Aegina and the coast of the Peloponnese in the background.

The Gate of Athena Archegetis in Athens.

The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens. The Acropolis in the background. The person standing at the entrance of the monument with his back turned is Seikh Mustafa, chief of the order of Whirling Dervishes, who used the monument as their tekije (dervish lodge). The image also depicts an woman from affluent family promenading with her daughters and maidservant.

A dancing girl.

View of the Capuchin convent, close to the Choregic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens. Engraving by David Le Roy.

The Tzisdaraki mosque in Monastiraki.

Snapshot from the celebration of the centenary of Greek independence in Patras.

Landscape in Chelidonou.

The fountain of Ismenos in Thebes.

Cretans wearing cloaks. From Travels in Crete by Robert Pashley.

Caricature by Edward Lear, depicting dinner in the village of Agioi Deka.

The church and courtyard of the Monastery of Arkadi (from Pashley's Travels in Crete).

Young girls at the fountain, lithograph by Louis Dupré.

Female costume of Aleppo, by Louis Dupré.

Janissary of the imperial guard and gardener, by Louis Dupré.

Greek wedding in Athens, by Louis Dupré.

Ali Pasha of Ioannina, at a hunt at Butrint Lake in March 1819, by Louis Dupré.

Visit to Ali Pasha, drawing with watercolour wash, by W. Turner.

The Virgin of Thyamis, by Louis Dupré.

Interior of a peasant hut, lithograph from edition by O. M. Von Stackelberg.

Lunch at the Voivodalik (seat of the Turkish Voivod or governor of Athens), lithograph by Louis Dupré.

View of Istanbul, copper engraving by Luigi Mayer.

View of Uzunköprü bridge over Ergines river, by Luigi Mayer.

View of Pera, copper engraving by Luigi Mayer.

Piccolo Bend, part of the aqueduct in Belgrade Forest, on the outskirts of Istanbul, copper engraving by Luigi Mayer.

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