Women (1837 Subjects)
View of Szolnok, Hungary. In the foreground local inhabitants prepare for to fight against the Ottomans (Second Siege of Vienna).
Petrovsky Palace at the entrance of Moscow. The palace was built in the era of Catherine the Great and was the penultimate stopover of Russian emperors in their journey from Saint Petersburg (then capitall of the Russian empire) to Moscow.
Wife of affluent merchant in official costume for the celebration of the Carnival, escorted by her nurse.
Romani of Banat, historical region of Central Europe (shared between Hungary, Serbia and Romania) washing gold.
Water cisterns in Kteifa, town at the outskirts of Damascus. According to the author the cisterns provided water to the inn of the city and were also used as water troughs for domestic animals.
Prisoners executed by torture in Persia. On the left, a woman is killed after the executioner has placed a rabid cat under her clothes. At the centre, prisoner tortured with hot irons.
Ruy Freire de Andrade, 17th-century Portuguese naval commander and colonist, throws into a boiling cauldron the new-born baby of a family native to the Persian gulf islands.