Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The print is signed "A. Beato" in the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0053-0027, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26473951, BIB-ID: 2830110

Plates depict landscapes and architectural and street views of Constantinople and the Bosphorus., Album of watercolor views taken by the album retracing the journey of Émilien Frossard, the pastor of the Reformed Church and draftsman Pyrenees, who was appointed to organize the Protestant chaplaincy ...

Femmes arméniennes 1707 -- Édifice arménien à Madenscher 1838 -- Vue du petit et du grand Ararat prise du couvent d'Echmiazin, résidence du patriarche 1850 -- Fille jouant du Tehegour 1707 -- Château de Semiramis à Van 1850 -- Un arménien 1802 -- Dammes arméniennes 1850 -- Couvent de Bzoum ...

Plates include views of Constantinople and its surroudings, some costume subjects and, curiously enough, various forms of Turkish transport by Jean Brindesi, an Italian painter who worked primarily as a watercolour artist in Istanbul, during the Abdul-Majid period (1831-1861). He worked on scenes in ...

Title from item, date devised by Library staff., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.GM.00013, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i25311657, BIB-ID: 2707935

Watercolor drawing depicting a man, kneeling down, dressed in black desert clothes, recalling Tuareg people traditional costumes., Date from item, title devised by Library staff. Manuscript caption of the back of the frame " Dessiné par St Exupéry en 1943 / Cadeau de George Keller 1950", Main Heri ...

Jean Cocteau was a French poet, painter and filmmaker. This drawing was probably a preparatory work for the decoration of the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem (Our Lady of Jerusalem), a Catholic chapel of the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon. At the origin of the chapel is Louis Martinon, a banker from N ...

The photographs shows 3 Arab wedding parade decorated camels., Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is signed, numbered (not visible) and titled on the negative., Main Heritage Display General, HC.HP.2017.0072, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i24468824, BIB-ID: 2537260

Photographs comprise views of Tbilisi, including Kura River and the Botanical Garden. Photographs of Bukhara, of Bukhara Emir's Horse, of Samarkand and of the Shah-i Zindah. Portrait of a cossack; views of Geok Tepe ruins, and a fortified village in Transcaucasia. View of the Goudimoff Gorge [?], of ...

Views of Palestine, mostly taken in Jerusalem, including market scenes, animals (camels, donkeys), encampments and buildings. There are portraits of children, women, religious figures, Arabs and Jewish types, young and old men performing their daily life activities and Westerns, possibly Nadar's tra ...