Ottoman officials (374 Subjects)
Ottoman officials. Members of the higher clergy. Eminent politicians and other personalities of the early 18th century. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. Baptism ceremony. Circumcision ceremony.
Ahmed III is problaimed Sultan and prepares to gird the sword of Osman. Next to him, a religious leader, most probably Sheikh ul-Islam, reads out the Sultan's oath to God, the Dynasty, the State and the Ottoman people.
Ismail Bey and Mehmed Pasha, sons of Veli Pasha of Thessaly and grandsons of AliPasha of Ioannina, by Louis Dupré.
Lunch at the Voivodalik (seat of the Turkish Voivod or governor of Athens), lithograph by Louis Dupré.