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Allegories (20 Subjects)

Frontispiece with allegorical reprsentation of Motraye's voyages. Snapshots from his travel experiences in the background, subjects related to geography, antiquity and history in the foreground.

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Frontispiece. Composition of themes from Struys' voyages.

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Allegoric scene: War and Peace as female figures. At the center the emblem of the Lord of Pembroke, to whom Pococke dedicated his work.

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Title page. Allegoric representation of the four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa and America.

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Frontispiece. Portrait of the author, Hans Jacob Breuning, at the age of fifty-eight, surrounded by allegoric figures: Truth prevails over Slander and Envy.

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Title page of the first voyage of the author.

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Vatican Nile.

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Rendering of the lost painting of the Calumny of Apelles.

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Title page. Allegory of Greece under Ottoman rule.

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“Remember Marathon”; Ancient general Miltiades appears to a Turkish soldier and foretells the victory of the Greeks.

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Title page. Allegory of Venice's victory in the Sixth Venetian-Ottoman war (1684–99).

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Allegory of the evolution of human thought and science.

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Frontispiece. Allegory of Venice's victory in the Sixth Ottoman-Venetian War.

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Allegory of History.

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The author praying before Saint Peter at his arrival in Rome.

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The author praying before Saint Catherine at his arrival at the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.

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The author praying before Saint Thomas at his alleged visit to the saint's shrine in Chennai, India.

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Arrival of the author at Jerusalem. The author praying before the Crucified Christ.

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The author praying before Saint James at his arrival at Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

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The author praying before Saint Michael at his arrival at Mont Saint-Michel, France.

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