View of Ioannina

Description

Featured in the 1836 collaborative work of Thomas Allom and Robert Walsh, this steel engraving depicts the magnificent topography and monumental silhouette of Ioannina, one of the most important administrative centers of Ottoman Rumelia. While the composition centers on the impassable castle walls and mosques integrating with the dramatic mountain range and Lake Ioannina in the background; it aesthetically reveals the unique multicultural fabric of the Balkans and the empire's strong architectural seal in Europe through the local figures in traditional fustanella attire in the foreground.