Albanians

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Albanians (Albanian: Shqiptarët) are an ethnic group native to Albania, Kosovo and neighboring countries in southwestern Balkans.

Drawings and Paintings[edit]

16th – 18th centuries[edit]

Unknown author: Georgius Scanderbek, unknown date, Uffizi, Florence.
Dominicus Custos (1560–1612): Georgius Castriotus Scanderbegus – Epiri & Albaniae & c. Princeps Anno 1444, ca. 1600.
Unknown author: The Albanians, unknown date.
Unknown author: Gran Visir Mehmed Köprülü of the Ottoman Empire, 1666.
Unknown author: Abdi Pasha the Albanian, unknown date.
Jean Baptiste Vanmour (1671–1737): An Albanian Shepherd, ca. 1700–1737.
Jean Baptiste Vanmour: A Woman of the Albanian Coast, ca. 1700–1737.
Jean Baptiste Vanmour: An Albanian Soldier, ca. 1700–1737.
Jean Baptiste Vanmour: An Albanian – Patrona Halil, ca. 1700–1737.
Jean Baptiste Vanmour: Patrona Halil, ca. 1700–1737.
Jean Baptiste Vanmour: The Murder of Patrona Halil and his Followers, ca. 1700–1737.
Jean Baptiste Vanmour: An Albanian Guard, ca. 1707.
Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier (1752–1817): Albanian Soldiers, ca. 1782.
Unknown author: A woman of San Costantino Albanese, Matera, 1799.

19th century[edit]

Pierre Didot (1760–1853): A group of upper-class Albanians in Typical Dress, ca. 1850.
Edward Daniel Clarke (1769–1822): An Albanian of Greece, 1814.
John Hobhouse (1786–1869): An Albanian, 1812.
Thomas Smart Hughes (1786–1847): Portrait of Ali Pasha, 1820.
Thomas Smart Hughes: View of Albanian palikars in pursuit of an enemy, 1820.
Thomas Smart Hughes: Portraits of Lambro the Suliote, and the old Balouk-Bashee of Dervitzina, 1820.
Joseph Cartwright (1789–1829): An Albanian of Jannina, unknown date.
Louis Dupré (1789–1837): Ali Pasha of Janina Hunting on Lake Butrinto, 1825.
Thomas Phillips (1770–1845): Portrait of Lord Byron in Albanian Dress, 1813.
Auguste Couder (1789–1873): Mehmet Ali Viceroy of Egypt, 1841.
Horace Vernet (1789–1863): Massacre of Mamluks, ca. 1840.
Raymond Monvoisin (1790–1870): Ali Pasha and Vassiliki, 1832.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875): The Albanian, ca. 1820.
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863): Portrait of Omer Vrioni, unknown date.
Achille Devéria (1800–1857): Albanian Colonies in Calabria, 1840.
Paul Emil Jacobs (1802–1866): The Pasha's Favourite (Ali Pasha and Kira Vassiliki), 1844.
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803–1860): Albanian Duel, 1828.
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps: Albanian Dancers, ca. 1835.
Erwin Speckter (1806–1835): An Albanian, 1831.
Charles Gleyre (1806–1874): Albanian Peasant, Athens, unknown date.
Nicolas Dally: A young woman of Caraffa, Calabria, 1844.
Michela De Vito: Costume of the Albanian colony of Villabadessa, 1820.
Edward Lear (1812–1888): Costume of the Women of Abadessa, 1846.
Edward Lear: The Falls of the Kalama, Albania, 1851.
Edward Lear: Butrinto, Albania, 1861.
Constantin Lecca (1807–1887): An Albanian, unknown date.
Amedeo Preziosi (1816–1882): Albanian Mercenaries in the Ottoman Army, ca. 1857.
Amedeo Preziosi: An Albanian, ca. 1860.
Amedeo Preziosi: An Albanian, ca. 1866.
Theodore Valerio (1819–1879): Albanians, 1875.
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904): Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert, 1857.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Prayers at the Home of an Albanian Chieftain, 1857.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Albanians Playing Chess, 1859.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: The Prisoner, 1861.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Albanian Guard in Cairo, 1861.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: A Joke – An Albanian Blowing Smoke into his Dog's Nose, 1864.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Prayer in the Desert, 1864.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian on his donkey crossing the desert, unknown date.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian with his Dog, 1865.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Old Clothing Merchant Seller in Cairo, 1866.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian with Two Whippets, 1867.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian in Cairo, unknown date.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian Smoking, 1868.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Bashi-Bazouk Singing, 1868.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: A Street Schene, Albanian Patrol in Cairo, ca. 1870.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian Bashi-Bazouk, 1896.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Marco Bozzari, 1874.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Bashi-Bazouk Chieftain, 1881.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian Bashi-Bazouk, unknown date.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: An Albanian Standing at a Wall, unknown date.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: A Café in Cairo – Casting Bullets in a Café, 1881.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Albanians performing the sword-dance, 1885.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Public Prayer in a Mosque, 1887.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Albanian bashi-bazouks in a detail of Public Prayer in a Mosque, 1887.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Return to the Palace, 1892.
Jean-Léon Gérôme: Albanian Officer, 1894.
Charles Bargue (1826–1883): The Albanian Sentinel, 1860.
Charles Bargue: The Albanian Sentinel in Cairo, 1877.
Charles Bargue: Head of a Young man. Study, ca. 1880.
Charles Wynne Nicholls (1831–1903): The Parting Of Conrad And Medora, unknown date.
Vasily Vereshchagin (1842–1904): Bashi-bazouk (Albanian), ca. 1877–1878.
Gyula Benczúr (1844-1920): The Recapture of Buda Castle in 1686, 1896.
Gyula Benczúr: Abdi Pasha the Albanian in a detail of The Recapture of Buda Castle in 1686, 1896.
Amand von Schweiger-Lerchenfeld (1856–1927): Albanians from Scutari crossing the Boyana to occupy Dulcigno, 1880.
Richard Caton Woodville, Jr (1846–1910): Albanian Frontier Guards at Prayer, 1889.
Richard Caton Woodville, Jr: Settling a Frontier Dispute, 1880.
Richard Caton Woodville, Jr: Albanian War-Dance, 1880.
Rudolf Otto von Ottenfeld (1856–1913): Street scene, 1887.
Rudolf Otto von Ottenfeld: A Montenegrin, 1888.
Unknoun author: The Albanian, 1871.
Kolë Idromeno (1860–1939): My Sister Tone, 1883.
Unknown author: A Geg Albanian, 1888.

20th century[edit]

Unknown author: Albanian Kachaks, ca. 1900.
Unknown author: Oso Kuka, 1901.
Franz Eisenhut (1857–1903): An Armed Albanian Standing, 1902.
Edith Durham (1863–1944): Head-shaves in Kastrati and Shkreli, Northern Albania, 1909.
Edith Durham (1863–1944): Tosk Costume, Southern Albania, 1905.
Percy Anderson (1851–1928): Albanian Peasants Costumes, 1906.
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925): Albanian olive pickers, 1909.
Kolë Idromeno (1860–1939): Wedding in Shkodra, 1924.
Kolë Idromeno: Self-portrait, 1931.
Kolë Idromeno: Courtyard of a Shkodra House, 1933.
Ettore De Maria Bergler (1850–1938): A Woman of Sicily in costume of Piana degli Albanesi, 1933.

Photography[edit]

Pietro Marubi (1834–1903)[edit]

Hamza Kazazi.
Catholic woman in Shkodra.
Albanian children from Shkodra.
A Catholic Albanian woman in Shkodra.
Albanians in the early 201th century.
An Albanian woman.
An Albanian woman in Grudë.
An Albanian man in Mirditë.
An Albanian man in Dukagjin.
An Albanian woman in Shkodra.
Albanian women and children in Dajç – Bregu i Bunës.
Catholic merchant from Shkodra.
An Albanian man in Shala.
Albanian man and woman in Elbasan.
An Albanian man in Kraja.
An Albanian woman in Vrakë.
An Albanian man in Peqin.
An Albanian man in Lorja.
Young albanian women in Kavajë.
Albanian men in Dibra.
Vatt Marashi, Chief of the Shkreli tribe.
Shkreli tribesman.

Edith Durham (1863–1944)[edit]

Shala men, Albania.
A young Sworn Virgin surrounded by men of the Kelmendi tribe, at Selca in Kelmendi territory, Albania.
Ferry over the Vjosa River near Tepelena, Albania.
Shpend Deli (Deli Shpend) and his men as refugees from Vuthaj/Vusanje, now in Montenegro.
A 47-year-old Sworn Virgin from Rapsha in Hoti territory, Albania.
Tribesmen visiting the feast of Saint Nicholas at Bzheta in Shkreli territory, Albania.
Men of the Shkreli tribe at the feast of Saint Nicholas at Bzheta in Shkreli territory, Albania.
Old Said of the Nikaj tribe, inspecting his flint lock gun, a karajfile, Albania.
Two men of the Plan tribe in the Pulat/Pult region who guided Edith Durham from Plan to Xhan and then on to Theth in the northern Albanian mountains.
Women of the Kastrati tribe, Albania.
Ren Vula, a Muslim boy from Gjakova (holding horse), and Edith Durham’s faithful guide, the moustached Mark Shantoja (Marko Shantoya), a Catholic from Shkodra; photo taken in Kosovo.
Edith Durham’s guide Krsto Pejović playing a gusle (Alb. lahuta) at Njeguši in Montenegro.
An Albanian walking in the streets of Cetinje, Montenegro.
Edith Durham speaking to the bajraktar (chieftain) of Koplik, Shkodra.

Franz Nopcsa (1877–1933)[edit]

Franz Nopcsa in Albanian costume.
Franz Nopcsa in Albanian costume.
An Albanian man in national costume.
An Albanian peasant woman near Shkodra.
An Albanian Muslim man.
The men of Blinisht in the District of Lezha.
Men of the Kir tribe, to the north of the Drin, in the Malësia e Vogël.
Men of Raja. Mërturi in the Drin valley of the District of Tropoja.
Group of Albanian men.
An Albanian in Skopje, 1903.
Albanians of Gruda, 1913.

Other[edit]

Albanian men.
Albanian men in Shkoder, 1904.
Albanian Highlanders, ca. 1904.
Armed Albanian men, 1906.
Albanian Insurgents in the Ottoman Empire.
Shkreli tribesmen, 1906.
Theodor Ippen in Albanian costume.
William James Joseph in Albanian costume.
Young Albanian in the upper Reka valley near Dibra, Macedonia.
Albanian fighters under Dutch command, 1913-1914.
Prince Wied’s interpreter in Durrës, ca. 1914.
Albanian woman and boy standing against a house wall, ca. 1914.
An Albanian man, 1917.
An Albanian man in Shkoder.
Azem and Shote Galica, 1920.
An Albanian rhapsod playing the lahuta.
Albanians playing traditional instruments in Has.

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