Smoking - TRAVELLERS' VIEWS - Places – Monuments – People Southeastern Europe – Eastern Mediterranean – Greece – Asia Minor

The Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I in Istanbul.

The Hippodrome of Constantinople.

View of Edirne Gate, at the walls of Istanbul.

View of the remains of the Monastery of Stoudios, Istanbul.

View of the Golden Gate at the walls of Istanbul.

Leventi, Ottoman navy mariner.

Simitçi, itinerant simit (bread) seller.

The fortresses at the entrance to the Black Sea.

The march of the Ottoman army across the desert.

The official responsible for preparing the Grand Vizier's smoking pipe (Tütün başı).

View of Nicolo Argyri's house in Joannina.

Portrait of Ali Pasha.

Mosque near Livadeia.

The Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion, Athens.

Hot springs near Pınarbaşı, the site traditionally identified with Troy. Those springs are called the forty Eyes.

Remains of the Thermae of Herodes Atticus in Alexandria Troas (today Eski Stambul).

Plains of Chaeronea, from the walls of Panopeus.

Source of the Delvino.

Coins of Athens. The sarcophagus of Boutos, priest of Athena and Poseidon, discovered in Erechtheion. Altar of Demeter and Persephone dedicated by Phavios, torch-bearer at the Eleusinian mysteries.

Northeast view of the Erechtheion.

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.