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

1. Christian lady of Damascus. 2. Christian lady of Aleppo. 3. Arab sheik from Syria.

Composition: The Monument of Philopappus. Scene of excavations at Thoricos, ancient settlement near Lavrio.

Composition: The Erechtheion together with the Gate of Athena Archegetis (mod. Pazaroporta).

Composition: The Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa) together with the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens.

Dance on the west bank of the Nile. On the foreground, two French travellers. The governors of the small vessels are smoking and drinking coffee while sitting on the ground, as are doing two dervishes and their servants farther away. According to Olivier's description, the scene depicts Egyptians dancing a war dance and a more sensual dance.

Title page. Scenes from the author's trip to the Mediterranean.

Landscape on Mount Uludağ, near Bursa.

The central square of the city of Kos with the Plane tree of Hippocrates.

View of Minya in Egypt. In the background the El-Amrawy Mosque.

View of the ruins of the Temple of Menthu in Armant, Egypt.

View of the Temple of Hathor in Dendera, Egypt.

View of the Pyramids of Cheops and Chephren in Giza, Egypt.

A café on the Bosphorus, somewhere near Üsküdar. In the background the Mihrimah Sultan Mosque.

The Fountain of Sultan Ahmet III. On the left, the Topkapi Palace.

View of the New Mosque in Eminönü.

Wealthy Ottoman couple in a street market or bazaar in Istanbul.

View of the port of Tophane. On the right the Ottoman imperial armory. On the left the Mosque of Kılıç Ali Paşa.

The Muslim cemetery of Pera (Beyoğlu). The cemetery started off today's Taxim square, and eventually reached the Bosporus through the neighborhoods of Gümüşsuyu and Fındıklı.