The Album includes engravings from the late 15th to the 19th century. The engravings depict the city of Thessaloniki and is surrounding area, and come from the collections of G. Patieridis and K. Stamatis. Material has been classified into categories according to subject: Maps and port indexes, Views of the city from the sea, Costumes, Monuments and architectural drawings of churches, Significant events, Eminent personalities of the city and Scenes from everyday life. The majority of the engravings comes from travel accounts, while others had been published in journals and reviews, mainly of the 19th century. The “Album” includes the largest known collection of engravings related to Thessaloniki, its monuments and human types during these four centuries.

Written by Ioli Vingopoulou

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  Port of Thessaloniki. Panoramic view of Thessaloniki. The White Tower. From: Marius Bernard: Turquie d'Europe et d'Asie. De Salonique à Jérusalem, Paris, Henri Laurent, 1899.

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  View of Thessaloniki. From: W.J. Conybeare and J. S. Housen, The Life and Epistles of Saint Paul, London, 1853.

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  Panoramic view of Thessaloniki during the Great Fire of 1890. From The Graphic, 1890.

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  Thessaloniki from the sea. From L'Univers Illustré, 1895. 

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  View of the White Tower. From The Graphic, 1888.

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  The Duke of Edinburgh visits the Governor's House in Thessaloniki. From The Graphic, 1888.

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  Pulpit of old church in Thessaloniki. From The Graphic, 1888.

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  Composition of illustrations of the Thessaloniki – Mitrovitsa (Serbia) railway connection. From Illustrierte Zeitung, 1888.

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  Scene of everyday life in the Ottoman Empire. Inauguration of the railway line in Thessaloniki, 1888. View of Heptapyrgion fortress. From Schorers Familienblatt, May 1888. 

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  View of the British hospital of Thessaloniki. Portraits of surgeons and administrative personnel of the Hospital. From The Graphic, 18 May 1878.

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  Bazaar of Thessaloniki. From Illustrierte Zeitung, 1875

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  Religious procession near Hatzi Mehmet fountain in Thessaloniki, c. 1875.

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  Portrait of Lysandros Kautantzoglou.

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  Portrait of Macedonius, vicarious of Africa.

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  Portrait of Theodorus Gaza, late 16th century.

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  Portrait of Theodorus Gaza.

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  Ottoman forces disembark in the port of Thessaloniki. British newspaper, 1895.

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  Fire sufferers' encampment outside Thessaloniki after the Great Fire of 4 September 1890. Scene from the great fire of Thessaloniki. From The Graphic, September 1890.

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  The Great Fire in the bazaar of Thessaloniki, 4 September 1890. Scenes before and after the fire. Fire sufferers' encampment. From L'illustration, 11 October 1890.

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  The area in which coronel Synge and his wife were held captive by bandits, in the region of Katerini.

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  The Great Fire in the bazaar of Thessaloniki, 4 September 1830. View of Thessaloniki from a minaret. From Le Monde Illustré, 1890. 

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  Arrival of coronel Synge in Thessaloniki after he was freed from his kidnappers.

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  Public deposition of three high-ranking administrative officials of Thessaloniki on 21 August 1876, following the murder of the consuls. From Le Monde Illustré, 1876. 

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  Saint Cyril.

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  Contingent of Turkish soldiers dispatched to Serbia from Thessaloniki  in order to participate in the suppression of the Herzegovina uprising (27 July 1876). From Le Monde Illustré, 19 August 1876. 

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  Conscripts of the Ottoman army exit New (Litaia) Gate to the direction of the railway station. From L'Illustration, 1876. 

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  Portrait of Demetrius I Poliorcetes.

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  Muslim religious students carrying old weapons anf dressed in old uniforms oarada ancient green standards of Mohammad through the streets of Thessaloniki, in order to encourage the faithful to combat against the uprising in Herzegovina. From Le Monde Illustré, 1876.

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  Enrollment office of the Ottoman army in Thessaloniki at the time of Herzegovina uprising. From Le Monde Illustré, 1876. 

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  Bashi-bazouk camp outside the walls of Thessaloniki at the time of Herzegovina uprising. From Le Monde Illustré, 1876. 

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  Turkish battleships approach the port of Thessaloniki in the summer of 1876, at the time of Herzegovina uprising. From German newspaper.

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  Horses of the Ottoman cavalry disembark in Thessaloniki after  the murder of the consuls in May 1876. From German newspaper of the era. 

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  Caricature on the execution of the men convicted for the murder of the consuls in May 1876. From French satirical newspaper Le Charivari, 1876. 

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  Hanging of the convicted for the murder of the consuls, 16 May 1876. From Le Monde Illustré, 1876. 

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  Arrival of the French and German inspectors entrusted with solving the murder of the consuls in Thessaloniki. From L'Univers Illustré, 1876. 

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  Saatli Mosque in Thessaloniki, outside which the murder of the consuls took place (1876). House of the French consul. Greek church where the funerary service for German consul Abbot took place. House of German consul Abbot. House of the Governor or Dioikeτerion.

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  Scenes from the funerary services for the consuls in Thessaloniki (May 1876). View of Thessaloniki. From Le Monde Illustré, May 1876. 

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  Murder of the French and German consuls by the mob in Thessaloniki, May 1876.  

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  Mount Olympus seen from Thessaloniki. Drawing by sailor on British Navy ship during the Greek-Turkish war of 1897. From The Illustrated London News, 1897.

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  Woman of Macedonia, from edition of the voyages of N. de Nicolay, 16th century. 

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  Married woman from Thessaloniki.  Woman from Thessaloniki. Maiden from Thessaloniki. From: Jean-Jacques Boissard, Habitus Variarum Orbis Gentium, 1581. 

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  Married woman from Thessaloniki, based on drawing by Cesare Vecellio. From: Alphonse Lasor a Varea (Raffaello Savonarola), Universus Terrarum Orbis Scriptorum Calamo Delineatis, Padua, 1713. 

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  Maiden  from Thessaloniki. From: T. Jefferys (ed.), A collection of the dresses of different nations, ancient and modern..., London, 1757. 

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  Bride from Thessaloniki, 16th century. Based on drawing by Jean-Jacques Boissard. From: T. Jefferys (ed.), A collection of the dresses of different nations, ancient and modern..., London, 1757. 

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  Noblewoman from Macedonia, 16th century, based on drawing by N. de Nicolay. From: T. Jefferys (ed.), A collection of the dresses of different nations, ancient and modern..., London, 1757. 

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  Muezzin. Women from Izmir and Thessaloniki. From: Giuseppe Antonelli (ed.), Galleria Universale di Tutti i Popoli del Mondo, c. 1838-1842.

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  Affluent young woman from Thessaloniki. From reedition of the work by Cesare Vecellio, Costumes anciens et modernes Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il Mondo di Cesare Vecellio,  Paris, Firmin-Didot,1859-60.

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  Bride from Thessaloniki. From reedition of the work by Cesare Vecellio, Costumes anciens et modernes, Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il Mondo di Cesare Vecellio, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1859-60.

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  Bulgarian woman from Kolakia (Halastra). Peasant woman from Baltza (Melissochori) on the outskirts of Thessaloniki. From: Raphäel Jacquemin, Iconographie générale et méthodique du costume du IVe au XIXe siècle (315-1815) [...], Paris, 1863-1869. 

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  Women from Thessaloniki. From The London Illustrated News, 1870. 

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  National costumes, mainly of peasants in various parts of Europe, among which a Turkish woman and an ulema from Thessaloniki. From:Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, Leipsig, late 19th century.

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  Women from Shkodër. Man from Edirne. Muslim woman from Thessaloniki. From the popular engraving series Münchener Bilderbogen, Braun-Schneider, Munich, c. 1890.

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  Young woman from Thessaloniki. Marius Bernard: Turquie d'Europe et d'Asie. De Salonique à Jérusalem, Paris, Henri Laurent, 1899.

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  Jewish young woman from Thessaloniki. Jewish man. Ambassafor guard in Thessaloniki.

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  Golden Gate or Axios (Vardar) Gate in Thessaloniki. From:  E. M. Cousinéry, Voyage dans la Macédoine, Paris, 1831. 

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  View of Incantadas monument in the Roman agora of Thessaloniki.  E. M. Cousinéry, Voyage dans la Macédoine, Paris, 1831. 

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  Arch of Galerius in Thessaloniki.

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  Rotonda in Thessaloniki.

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  View of Incantadas monument in the Roman agora of Thessaloniki, based on earlier drawing from the edition by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett. Lithograph, c. 1830.

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  Reliefs from Magnesia and Thessaloniki at the court of Louvre Museum. From Poliorama Pittoresco review, 1843.

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  Scenes from the life of Alexander the Great. Monuments of Thessaloniki. Arch of Galerius.

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  Alaca Imaret or Isak Pasa Mosque in Thessaloniki.

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  Detail from the arch of Galerius in Thessaloniki.

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  Christian mosaic from Rotonda in Thessaloniki. From: Wilhelm Lübke and Karl von Lützow, Denkmäler der Kunst. Zur Übersicht der bildenden Kunst von den frühesten Werken bis auf die neueste Zeit, Stutgart, mid-19th century.  

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  Golden Gate or Axios (Vardar) Gate in Thessaloniki. Ancient coin from Amphipolis. From edition of the mid-19th century.

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  Sections of Hagios Demetrios church in Thessaloniki. Russian lithograph, c. 1870.

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  Longitudinal section and plan of the Rotonda in Thessaloniki. Russian lithograph, c. 1870.

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  Rotonda in Thessaloniki. Russian lithograph, c. 1870.

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  Elevation of Hagioi Apostoloi church in Thessaloniki. Russian lithograph, c. 1870.

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  Arch of Galerius in Thessaloniki. Greek history textbook, 19th century.

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  Muslim cemetery in Thessaloniki.

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  Section, views and plans of Rotonda in Thessaloniki. South view, plan and section of Profitis Ilias church in Thessaloniki.

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  Mosaics from Rotonda in Thessaloniki.

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  Mosaics from Rotonda in Thessaloniki.

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  Interior of Hagios Demetrius church prior to the fire of September 1891.

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  Arch from the archaeological site of Philippoi and details of the monument. Golden Gate in Thessaloniki and  details of the monument. From: Héctor d'Espouy, Fragments d’architecture antique..., Paris, 1897-1925. 

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  Composition of scenes from the rise and fall of Sabbatai Zevi, the rabi who claimed to be the Messiah of the Jews until he was forced to convert to Islam by the Ottoman Sultan (17th century). Sabbatai Zevi claims to be the Messiah. Sabbatai Zevi enthroned by his followers. Ottoman soldiers arrest Sabbatai Zevi in the Dardanelles. From: J. Chr. Wagner, Delineatio Provinciarum Pannoniae et Imperii Turcici in Oriente, Augsburg, 1684.

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  Murder of the French and German consuls by the mob in Thessaloniki, May 1876. From The Illustrated London News, May 1876.

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  Mehme Rifa Pasha, general governor of Thessaloniki, deposed after the murder of the consuls in May 1876. From Le Monde Illustré (1876). 

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  Murder of the French and German consuls by the mob in Thessaloniki, May 1876. Portrait of murdered consul of France Jules Moulin. From Le Journal Illustré, May 1876.

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  Map of Macedonia.  From: Gerardus Mercator, Atlas, 16th century. 

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  Index of ports on the Thermaic Gulf. From: Joseph Roux, Recueil des Principaux Plans des Ports de la Mer Méditerranée, 1779. 

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  Index of ports and anchorage points in Thessalonica. From: Joseph Roux, Recueil des Principaux Plans des Ports de la Mer Méditerranée, 1779. 

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  Index of ports and anchorage points in Thessalonica. From: Joseph Roux, Recueil des Principaux Plans des Ports de la Mer Méditerranée, 1779. 

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  Port index of the Thermaic Gulf. From The New Mediterranean Harbour Pilot, William Heather, 1810.

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  Vilayet of Thessaloniki. Ottoman map, c. 1890.

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  Map of Thessaloniki, possibly from Türkei und Griechenland, Meyers Reisebücher, late 19th century

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  Map of Thessaloniki, possibly from Die Seehäfen des Weltverkehrs by Alexander Dorn, vol Ι, Vienna, late 19th century.

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  Landscape of Macedonia (imaginary representation). From: Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum, Nurnberg, 1493. 

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  Landscape of Macedonia (imaginary representation). From: Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum, Nurnberg, 1493. 

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  View of Thessaloniki. From Jacob Enderlin (ed.), Archipelagus Turbatus, Augsburg, 1686. 

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  View of Thessaloniki in the late 17th century.

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  View of Thessaloniki. From: Jacob Sandrart, Kurtze und vermehrte Beschreibung [...] der Weltberühmten Republick Venedig, 1687.

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  View of Thessaloniki. From: French edition of Olfert Dapper, Naukeurige Beschryving der Eilanden, late 17th century.

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  View of Dodoni, Thessaloniki and Vale of Tempi (imaginary representations) framed by mythological scenes. From: Jacobus Gronovius, Thesaurus Graecarum Antiquitatum, 1699.

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  View of Thessaloniki from the sea. Index of the ports in the Gulf of Thessaloniki.

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  View of the port of Thessaloniki from the southeast. From E.-M. Cousinery, Voyage dans la Macédoine, Paris, 1831.

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  View of Thessaloniki from the sea. From illustrated edition of the Bible, mid-19th century.

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  View of the White Tower and the eastern wall of Thessaloniki from the Muslim cemetery. From: Walter Bouchier Devereux, Views on the Shores of the Mediterranean, London, 1847. 

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  View of Mount Olympus from the road from Thessaloniki to Vasilika. From: Joseph Frederick Wickenden, Seven Days in Attica in the summer of 1852 . 

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  View of Thessaloniki from the sea.  From: Joseph Frederick Wickenden, Seven Days in Attica in the summer of 1852 . 

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  View of Thessaloniki. From: Le Journal Illustré, 1876. 

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  View of Thessaloniki from religious book, 19th century.

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  View of Thessaloniki. From Le Monde Illustré, 1876.

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  Thessaloniki. From articles which appeared in the European press on the murder of the French and German consuls in 1876.

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  View of the White Tower and the eastern wall of Thessaloniki from the Muslim cemetery, 1876. Illustration is clearly based on the similar view found in Views on the Shores of the Mediterranean by Walter Bouchier Devereux, London, 1847.

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  German sailors see the port of Thessaloniki for the first time through the porthole of SMS Kaiser, ironclad of the German Navy, sent to Thessaloniki after the murder of the consuls in 1876.

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  Thessaloniki from the sea. From late-19th century edition.

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  Thessaloniki from the sea. From Amand Freiherr von Schweiger-Lerchenfeld, Der Orient,Vienna - Pest – Leipsig, 1882. 

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  Turskish troops disembarking at the port of Thessaloniki. From article in L'Illustration on 30 Januray 1886, on the events of the 1885-1886 crisis  (“armed beggary” or 'Peace War”).

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  Thessaloniki from the sea. From article on the Great Fire of 1890 in The Illustrated London News, 20 September 1890 

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  Thessaloniki from the sea. From: Abbé Hamard, Par délà l'Adriatique et les Balkans, Paris-Lyon, Delhomme et Briguet, 1890. 

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  Thessaloniki from the east. From: Abbé Hamard, Par délà l'Adriatique et les Balkans, Paris -Lyon, Delhomme et Briguet, 1890. 

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  Thessaloniki from the east. Possibly from: Alexander Dorn, Die Seehäfen des Weltverkehrs, vol.  I, Vienna, late 19th century.

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  Gypsies dancing outside the walls of Thessaloniki. Engraving by Almèry Lobel-Riche. 

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  Itinerant musicians in Thessaloniki. Engraving by Almèry Lobel-Riche.

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  The port of Thessaloniki. From: Alexander Dorn, Die Seehäfen des Weltverkehrs, vol. ?, Vienna, late-19th century.

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  View of the port of Thessaloniki with the ships of the British fleet, from the Hospital roof. From: The Illustrated London News, 1895.    

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  Central street in Thessaloniki. From:  Marius Bernard: Turquie d'Europe et d'Asie. De Salonique à Jérusalem, Paris, Henri Laurent, 1899.  

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  Sailors of the British Mediterranean fleet waiting at the port to get back on their ships after a short general leave. From The Illustrated London News, 1895. 

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  Map of Greece. From Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia Universalis, 16th century.

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  Map of Macedonia, Epirus and Continental Greece. From: Gerardus Mercator, Atlas, 16th century. 

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  Title page.

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  View of Thessaloniki. From: Pieter van der Aa, La Galèrie Agréable du Monde, 1729. Reproduction from Olfert Dapper, Naukeurige Beschryving der Eilanden, Amsterdam, late 17th century. 

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  Saint Demetrius, c. 1770.

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  Portrait of Leo, bishop of Heliopolis and Thyateira (1773).

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  View of Thessaloniki from L'Illustrazione Italiana, 1876.

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  Thessaloniki from the western wall. From: Georgina Muir Mackenzie and Adelaida Paulina Irby, Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe in two Volumes, London, 1877. 

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  Jewish wetnurse with infant. From: Adelaide Mary Walker, Through Macedonia to the Albanian Lakes, London, Chapman and Hill, 1864.

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  Bulgrian bride from Kalamaria. From: Adelaide Mary Walker, Through Macedonia to the Albanian Lakes, London, Chapman and Hill, 1864.

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  Agioi Apostoloi church in Thessaloniki.

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  Golden Gate or Axios (Vardar) Gate in Thessaloniki. Based on the drawing by E. M. Cousinéry in Voyage dans la Macédoine, Paris, 1831. 

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  Massacre in the Hippodrome of Thessaloniki in 390. Wood engraving, possibly of the 16th century.

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  Portrait of Theodorus Gaza. From: André Thevet, Vrais Portraits et Vies des Hommes Illustres, Paris, 1584.

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  Inn on the road to Thessaloniki, according to the description by Vladimir Zittelbach. From: Das Buch fuur Alle, 1850.