Europeans (127 Subjects)
Pompey's Pillar, shewing the mode by which some English Sailors first gained an ascent to the capital of the Column.
View of the Erechtheion. Workmen excavating to reveal the base of the prostasis underneath the Caryatids. Ottoman official Dizdar Aǧa is leaning on his son-in-law's shoulder while two other Ottomans are supervising the excavations in order to keep him informed and to ensure that the British are not carrying away the archaeological findings. On the foreground a man, probably James Stuart, drawing the monument.
Interior view of the Yerebatan Cistern, Istanbul. In the foreground two Ottomans are measuring the length of the site. On the background two west Europeans admiring the cistern.
Orthodox priest guides a gentleman of west European origin into the interior section of a rock-cut mausoleum in Palaiopolis, Cythera.
The ruins of the putative Temple of Aphrodite in Palaiopolis, Cythera. According to the legend at this site stood a statue of Helen of Troy, as well as a castle of Menelaus.
View of Aplunari, hill close to the Temple of Aphrodite and the port of Avlemonas (or Kastri) on Cythera.
View of Istanbul from Bulgurlu hill at Üsküdar. In the foreground two west European men, one of whom is most probably the author himself, are chatting with Ottoman men.
The Hippodrome of Constantinople. In the background the Obelisks of the Byzantine Emperors Theodosius II and Constantine VII. On the left the Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I.
View of the park of Pera, next to the cemetery. This park started off the area around today's Taxim square and through the neighborhoods of Gümüşsuyu and Fındıklı it reached the shores of Bosporus.
The seaside kiosk of Sultan Selim III at Bebek, on the European shores of Bosporus. In this kiosk the Sultan and other Ottoman officials of high ranks gave audience to representatives of foreign states.
