Merchants / Traders (63 Subjects)
Costume of Italian merchant, late sixteenth-century.
Costume of merchant from Naples, end of the sixteenth-century.
British merchant.
Merchant from the Netherlands.
Merchant woman of middle class from Silesia.
Greek merchant of Istanbul.
Lady of Caramania in Istanbul.
Wealthy inhabitant of Caramania.
Armenian merchant.
The ruins of Hadrian's Library, Athens.
The central avenue of the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.
The armor bazaar in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.
A scene in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul, somewhere in Sandal Bedesten.
Milk store in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul.
View of the Tophane square and the Fountain of Sultan Mahmut I. In the background the Nusretiye Mosque.
View of Bebek, on the European shore of the Bosporus.
Golden Gate or Axios (Vardar) Gate in Thessaloniki. From: E. M. Cousinéry, Voyage dans la Macédoine, Paris, 1831.
Bazaar of Thessaloniki. From Illustrierte Zeitung, 1875
Bulgarian women in the bazaars of Monastir [Bitola].
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.
View of the city of Mamre, or Terebinth, Palestine. According to one tradition, this is the site where David overcame Goliath. In the foreground, caravan of Ottoman merchants.
View of Aleppo, Syria. Ottoman caravan in the foreground.
1,2. Coins minted by English merchants and colonists of Fort Saint George at Madras (today Chennai), India. 3-8. Coins minted by Dutch merchants and colonists of Pulicat (today Pazhaverkadu), India.
Greek merchant from Astrakhan on a visit to Moscow.
Wife of affluent Russian merchant in gala dress.
Wife of affluent merchant in official costume for the celebration of the Carnival, escorted by her nurse.
Imaginary reconstruction of the agora of Sparta. In the background, the Acropolis. In the foreground, the statue of Hermes Agoraeus with young Dionusus. On the right, the Persian stoa which housed the spoils of the Persian wars. In the background, the sanctuary of Moirai with Orpheus's grave.
Streetlet at Plaka, Athens.
Merchant of Greek descent, Istanbul.
Wife of merchant of Greek descent, Istanbul.