Libraries (33 Subjects)
Interior of an Abyssinian library, in the Monastery of Souriani on the Natron Lakes.
Hadrian's Library, seen from the house of Nikolaos Logothetis, consul of Britain in Athens. In the foreground, the soap mills, an Ottoman aga receiving a visitor and an Albanian groom.
Plan of Hadrian's Library, Athens. The remaning part is shaded in the drawing.
Hadrian's Library in Athens: 1. The elevation of the portal of Hadrian's Library and the facade to the north of the portal. 2. A section of the front wall with a profile of the portal and the southern pteroma, with one of the columns between the portal and the northern pteroma. 3. Hadrian's Library in Athens: The section of the portal and of the gate-way of entrance before which it is placed. 4. Part of the external face of the lateral wall or flank of this building.
Hadrian's Library in Athens: 1. The base of one of the four fluted columns of the portal. Fig. 2. The cornice of the lateral walls and of the exhedrae. Fig. 3. The architrave of the gate-way or entrance before which the portal in the middle of the front is placed. Fig.4. A section of the aforesaid architrave.
Hadrian's Library in Athens: 1. The capital and entablature of the columns on the front of the building. 2. Section of the capital. 3. Bottom plan of mouldings. 4. Architrave of the interior of the portal and moulding of the abacus of the capital, continued underneath the architrave.
Hadrian's Library in Athens: Fig. 1. The plan of the capital. Fig. 2. The angular view of the capital.
View of San Marco Square (Venice) from San Giorgio Maggiore island.
View of San Marco Square from the Clock Tower.
The choregic monument of Lysicrates, which served for some time as library of the Capuchin Order.
Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: An attempt to restore the upper part of this building and to explain the manner which the tripod was originally placed on it.
Ornamental feature from column.
Funerary vase. Sketch of a part of the ancient Agora. Ancient inscriptions.
The library of Hadrian seen from the house of Nikolaos Logothetis, consul of Britain in Athens. In the foreground, the soap mills. An Ottoman aga receiving a visitor; an Albanian groom.
Plan of Hadrian's Library.
The elevation of the portal of Hadrian's Library and the facade to the north of the portal.
Hadrian's Library in Athens: A section of the front wall with a profile of the portal and the southern pteroma, with one of the columns between the portal and the northern pteroma.
Hadrian's Library in Athens: The section of the portal and of the gate-way of entrance before which it is placed.
Hadrian's Library in Athens: Part of the external face of the lateral wall or flank of this building.
Hadrian's Library in Athens: The base of one of the four fluted columns of the portal.
Hadrian's Library in Athens: The capital and entablature of the columns on the front of the building.
Hadrian's Library in Athens: Fig. 1. The plan of the capital. Fig. 2. The angular view of the capital.
Hadrian's Library in Athens: The plan and elevation of some ruins on which part of the church called the Megali Panagia is built.
Hadrian's Library in Athens: Fig. 1. The cornice of the lateral walls and of the exhedrae. Fig. 2. The architrave of the gate-way or entrance before which the portal in the middle of the front is placed. Fig. 3. A section of the aforesaid architrave. Fig. 4. The mouldings and impost of the ancient arch in the church of the Megâle Panagía. Fig. 5. The section of an architrave supported by the three columns, and by the pilaster which are contiguous to the above mentioned church. Fig. 6. The capital of the pilaster.
1. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing Apollo and Demeter, at the necropolis of Furkia. 2. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing Hermes and Pheme, at the necropolis of Furkia. 3. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing Ceres and Athena, at the necropolis of Furkia.4. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing a priest, at the necropolis of Furkia. 5. Reconstructive drawing of building at Al Bara, near Aleppo. 6. Relief found at the entrance of the library of the Levant Company (or East Company) at Aleppo, Syria.
Hadrian's Library in Athens.
The Library of the Grand duke of Tuscany in Florence.
The public library of Sultan Abdul Hamid I in Istanbul.
The public library of Grand Vizier Recip Paşa in Istanbul.
The tomb of Osman I in Bursa. Ottoman books, probably from one of the public libraries of Istanbul.