Tanos's pictures (376)

In addition to the pictures below, there are pages dedicated to images of Prisons, Slave Markets, and Coffles and slave chains; and raw Photostreams with some of my photographs.

21 May 06	"The Babylonian Marriage Market" by Edwin Long According to the Greek historian Herodotus, writing about Babylon: "In every village once a year all the girls of marriageable age used to be collected together in one place, while the men stood round them in a circle; an auctioneer then called each one in turn to stand up and offered her for sale, beginning with the best-looking and going on to the second best as soon as the first had been sold for a good price." [more...]
15 Jul 05	"Slave girl for sale" by Jose Jimenez Aranda, 1892 In the Museum of Malaga. With a Greek inscription but a vaguely oriental carpet, this shares the "Greek Slave's" ambiguity between the Ancient and Orientalist worlds. Is she being exposed for sale during the Greek wars of independence from the Ottomans, or is she instead waiting to be bought in an Ancient Greek marketplace? [more...]
5 Mar 11	"Purchase of a slave" (1857) by J.L. Gerome
5 Mar 11	"The White Slave" (1894) by Ernest Normand A Greek merchant offers a European slave girl to an Egyptian Pharaoh?
22 May 06	"Naked Slave with Tambourine" by Frank Buchser, 1880 Buchser visited Morocco several times before his visit of 1880, and painted general street scenes as well as this slave being displayed for sale. The Arabic inscription on the wall to her right reads "To be sold".
22 May 06	"Picking the Favourite" by Giulio Rosati
18 Feb 11	"Slave Market in Constantinople" by William Allan A rather melodramatic depiction from 1838, in contract to Allom's engraving of the same place from the same time. [more...]
6 May 06	"The Nuruosmaniye Mosque and the Slave Market" by This picture is used in my Constantinople Slave Market and general slave markets pages.
19 Feb 11	"Slaves Bazaar in Constantinople", Ippolito Caffi This picture is used in my Constantinople Slave Market and general slave markets pages.
18 Feb 11	The Slave Market in Constantinope, by J.F. Lewis This picture is used in my Constantinople Slave Market and general slave markets pages.
2 Mar 11	"The Aurut Bazaar or Slave Market" by Thomas Allom From Thomas Allom's "Constantinople and the Scenery of Seven Churches of Asia", 1838 with text by Dr Robert Walsh, the chaplain to the British embassy in Constantinople. [more...]

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