Women (1824 Subjects)
Plan of the medieval castle of Petrinja, Croatia. Plan of the Ottoman castle of Petrinja, Croatia.
Dalmatian woman of aristocratic descent.
Dalmatian woman of aristocratic descent.
The temple of Hephaestus, Athens.
The fortress of Königstein at the town of Königstein, Saxony, Germany.
The vacation cottage of Johann Jacob Rieter, Swiss manufacturer of woolen textiles.
Theatre production at Hanoi (today in Vietnam) in the presence of the king of Tonkin and his court.
Procession which escorts the queen mother or the queen of Tonkin as they exit the palace.
Petrovsky Palace at the entrance of Moscow. The palace was built in the era of Catherine the Great and was the penultimate stopover of Russian emperors in their journey from Saint Petersburg (then capitall of the Russian empire) to Moscow.
Woman from Arsamas in typical costume, Moscow.
Carnival scene at Saint Petersburg.
Wife of affluent Russian merchant in gala dress.
Romani people dancing the Barina traditional dance
Wife of affluent merchant in official costume for the celebration of the Carnival, escorted by her nurse.
View of Moscow from Bersenevsk area.
Women from Penza, whom the author encountered in the city of Voronezh, Russia.
Woman from Voronezh, Russia.
Woman from Little Russia, a historical geographic region, today part of Ukraine.
Portrait of woman from Kalmykia.
Family of Tatar nomads spends the night at the steppe.
Romani of Banat, historical region of Central Europe (shared between Hungary, Serbia and Romania) washing gold.
Muslim funeral in Istanbul.
Water cisterns in Kteifa, town at the outskirts of Damascus. According to the author the cisterns provided water to the inn of the city and were also used as water troughs for domestic animals.
Preparation of wine at Aleppo, Syria.
Prisoners executed by torture in Persia. On the left, a woman is killed after the executioner has placed a rabid cat under her clothes. At the centre, prisoner tortured with hot irons.
Ruy Freire de Andrade, 17th-century Portuguese naval commander and colonist, throws into a boiling cauldron the new-born baby of a family native to the Persian gulf islands.
Local costumes of Agra, India.
Woman bandit on the route from Agra to Delhi.
Carriage typically used by affluent merchants of India.
Acrobats performing on the street at the city of Amer, India.