Carpets (201 Subjects)
Open-air praying site; such sites existed on all big commercial routes in the Ottoman Empire.
View of the central nave of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.
The public library of Sultan Abdul Hamid I in Istanbul.
The public library of Grand Vizier Recip Paşa in Istanbul.
The Grand Vizier offers dinner (Ifter) to other Ottoman officials during the Ramadan.
Religious ceremony in the Audience Hall of Tokapi Palace on the eve of the Bayram.
The private quarters of an Ottoman official.
Muslim women entertaining themelves in their private quarters.
A European ambassador has dinner with the Grand Vizier.
A European ambassador appears before the Sultan.
The living-room of a noblewoman's house.
Portrait of Ali Pasha of Ioannina.
The Ottoman Sultan and the Great Vizier.
A musician and a woman dancer of the Harem. The lady responsible for keeping order in the Harem.
Kizlar Aga, head of the black eunuchs of the imperial Harem. Odalisk of the imperial Harem.
Kapi Aga, the head of the white eunuchs of the imperial Harem.
An İçoğlan, servant in the imperial Palace, during a writing lesson, with his teacher.
İçoğlan Aga, responsible for the Devsirme children who became servants in the Imperial palace. Tascireci Bashi, secretary to the Sultan.
The Minister of the Exterior (Reis Efendi). A Dragoman of the imperial palace.
A Mufti reading prayers at a Sultan's sarcophagus (türbe).
The head of the Ulemas, scholars of Islamic Law and other disciplines. The Kadi, head of the judges of Istanbul (Istanbul Kadişi).
Stages of Muslim prayer.
Women from Andros.
Ottomans enjoying a meal.
Dinner at Crisso, near Delphi, in the house of the bishop of Salona.
The bazaar of Athens. On the forefront, on the right, an emancipated African slave. On the doorway, the owner of the coffeehouse who is brigning a tray with coffee to the Ottoman governor Disdar Aga. Disdar Aga is sitting on the stairs, dressed in red, and next to him sits another Turkish aga. Standing at the entrance of the coffeehouse, the Greek voivode (governor) of Salamis island, who is conversing a Greek Baratario (protegé of a foreign power). At the centre of the picture, three Turkish women covered with long white veils. According to Edward Dodwell's description, the rest of the women depicted are Arvanite. Standing, on the right, a devout Muslim in green costume, an indication that he has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Women from the Peloponnese.
Turkish man smoking his hookah.
Leisure scene at the location of Sweet Waters of Asia.
View of the port of Rhodes. View of Yaffa, Israel. Ottomans playing chess. Ottoman women having coffee in their private quarters.