A book of scenes of Southern Albania by George de la Poer Beresford, with no text other than a table of contents with descriptions of the plates and titles and production details. The individual views of the lithograph as follows: A view of the seraglio and tomb of Ali Pasha with a small mosque by the low wall, another building to the right with Albanian men watching grooms holding horses, two groups of people beyond.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1940-0810-1-1-12">[1]</a>
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Ali Pasha of Tepelena or of Yannina (Janina, Ioannina), surnamed Aslan, "the Lion", or the "Lion of Yannina" (1740-1822), was a Muslim Albanian ruler who served as an Ottoman pasha of the western part of Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire's European territory, which was referred to as the Pashalik of Yanina. At this time (1855) Janina was the capital of an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. In 1913 it became part of Greece. In the print, on the right, a few guards sit outside Ali Pasha's seraglio in their distinctive costumes. Their horses are shown in the center. The family tomb of Ali Pasha where Ali Pasha's decapitated body (1822) and those of his spouses (Um Gulsum Hanum, 1809) were buried is seen on the left, opposite the seraglio.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/nzmrghtv">[2]</a>
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George de la Poer Beresford</div>
1855<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1855-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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