View of Paramythia in Epirus

Description

Featured in the 1836 collaborative work of Thomas Allom and Robert Walsh, this steel engraving depicts the town and castle of Paramythia, flawlessly clinging to the rugged and steep geography of the Epirus region. While presenting the dramatic Balkan mountains rising to the sky and the Ottoman civil/military architecture terraced on the slopes in the background, the composition aesthetically documents the continuously functioning historical transportation and trade network despite the region's challenging topography by illustrating locals taking a break with their pack animals in the shadow of a historical arch ruin in the foreground.