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Riders (23 Subjects)

Rider from Venice in light armor.

Russian cavalry soldier.

Kazaasker, chief judge in the Ottoman Empire.

Turk in a raincoat.

Beylerbey of Rumeli.

Beylerbey of Anatolia.

Turkish horsemen.

Ottoman cavalry during the Siege of Rhodes.

Temple of Jupiter Olympus, Athens.

The Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III at the Hagia Sophia square, Istanbul.

View of the Temple of Hephaestus (Thiseion), Athens.

The Aqueduct of Hadrian (Dexameni), Athens.

Ottoman official, perhaps the Sultan himself, marches to the mosque.

The prairie of Büyükdere, Istanbul.

The Fountain of Sultan Ahmet III at Hagia Sophia square.

Ottoman soldiers exercising in Cirit, a martial art practiced with a javelin.

A Pasha, governor of an Ottoman province, marching towards Istanbul.

Frontispiece to the fourth volume of the edition. Mamluk rider.

Musical instruments and saddle equipment typical of the Ottoman empire.

The pass of Thermopylae. The mounted figures at the centre are the armed escorts of Edward Dodwell, whose mission was to protect the travelling party from the bandits who were prowling the pass of Thermopylae.

Members of the Ottoman cavalry during the siege of Rhodes.

Equestrian figure from the frieze of the Parthenon.

Cavalry, drawing after the reliefs on the frieze of the Parthenon, today at the British Museum, London.