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Istanbul (Turkey)

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Images

  • Turkish prisoners sitting in a cell with a barred window; two of them are racing cockroaches. Process print by Meisenbach after H. Lanos after W.T. Maud.
  • Constantinople: a mufti or authority on religious law. Engraving by G. Scotin the elder, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.
  • A travelling barber. Engraving by G. Scotin the elder, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.
  • Istanbul: the column of Constantine and the street Yeniçeriler Caddesi. Engraving attributed to D. Pronti after W. Reveley.
  • Constantinople: a street seller of confectionery with honey. Engraving by G. Scotin, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.
  • The Hippodrome, Istanbul, Turkey: the bronze Serpentine Column with the Blue Mosque in the background. Photograph by Guillaume Berggren, ca. 1880.
  • Constantinople: a man sits to write a letter as two women watch over his shoulder. Coloured lithograph by J. Nash after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • The Sultan stabs Zara in the chest: the finale of the play Zaire (Zara) by Voltaire. Etching.
  • Constantinople: a boy presents a smoking hookah to Mr Sotiri, Albanian interpreter to the British consul in Bucharest. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • The Hippodrome, Istanbul, Turkey: the obelisk of Theodosius (right) , the Serpent Column (centre), and the column of Constantine Porphyrgenitus (left). Photograph by Guillaume Berggren, ca. 1880.
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Works

  • view Constantinople: a girl playing the tehegour (guitar). Engraving by G. Scotin the elder, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Constantinople: a girl playing the tehegour (guitar). Engraving by G. Scotin the elder, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.

    Vanmour, Jean-Baptiste, 1671-1737 | Date: [1714] | Reference: 2498822i
    • Books

    [Bloodless surgical operations in Byzantium : some early evidence of advanced surgery] / by John Lascaratos.

    Laskaratos, Iōannēs G | Date: 1994
  • view Hôpital militaire français des Grands-Champs, à Constantinople.
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Hôpital militaire français des Grands-Champs, à Constantinople.

    | Date: [1854?]
    • Books

    Art et science vétérinaire à Byzance : formes et fonctions de l'image hippiatrique / S. Lazaris.

    Lazaris, Stavros | Date: [2010], ©2010
    • Pictures

    Istanbul, Turkey: municipal workers disinfecting water pools following an outbreak of cholera. Photograph, 1970.

    | Date: 18th October 1970 | Reference: 589069i
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