Tales of Two Cities:
The Leipzig-Damascus Coffee House
IMAGE CREDITS
All images from the Rijksmuseum in this list used with kind permission of the museum.
1. Jean Baptiste Vanmour, Lying-in room of a distinguished Turkish woman. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
2. Photos of flowers and berries of the coffee arabica plant, used with gracious permission of Forest and
Kim Starr.
3. Coffee fields in Yemen. ©Claudiovidri, Shutterstock.
4. Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, Whirling dervishes. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
5. Footage of modern whirling dervish. ©blueice, Depositphotos.
6. Footage of Sema ceremony. ©igercelam, Depositphotos.
7. Images of Mecca and Medina, 18th century, from Dala’il al-khayrat. Used with permission of the Open
Content Program of the Getty Research Institute.
8. Anon., Coffee drinkers. Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, MS T 439.9. ©Trustees of the Chester Beatty
Library, Dublin.
9. Photos of Venice used with kind permission of Elizabeth Ganiatsos.
10. Photos of Damascus used with kind permission of Ross Burns.
11. Venetian glass plate, c.1500. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
12. Syrian glass bowl, 1350-1400. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.: Purchase —
Charles Land Freer Endowment, F1933-13.
13. Georg Engelhard Schroeder, Mehmet Efendi, Ottoman ambassador to France, and his retinue. Pera
Museum, Istanbul, ©Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy Stock.
14. Carle Vanloo, The Grand Turk at a concert in Paris. The Wallace Collection, London, used with kind
permission.
15. Historical maps and 18th-century images of Leipzig courtesy of the Bach Museum, Leipzig.
16. Anon., Portrait of Georg Phillip Telemann with book. Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy.
17. Samuel Scott, Shipping in a Choppy Sea, 1753. Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Paul Mellon
Collection.
18. Images of gum arabic and oak galls. Photo by Gert Mothes, courtesy of Bach Museum, Leipzig.
19. Anon., Caravan of Pilgrims to Mecca and Medina. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, J.G. de Groot Jamin
Bequest.
20. Workshop of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, Jewish Merchant. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
21. Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, Party of Armenians playing cards. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
22. Photo of Damascus courtyard with oranges and flowering vines. ©Jo Whitworth/Alamy Stock Photo.
23. Leipzig coffee salon, 1744, engraving by Anna Maria Werner from Lockenraub by Alexander Pope,
translated by Luisa Gottsched. Used with kind permission of Leipzig University Library.
24. Images of Meissen coffee cups, used with permission of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and The
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Messien cup c.1735, Gardiner Museum, Gift of George & Helen Gardiner,
G83.1.680; image used with permission of the museum.
25. Cornelis Troost, Portrait of a cellist, 1737. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
26. Julius Henricus Quinkhard, Portrait of violinist (detail). 1755, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
27. Jean Baptiste Vanmour, Portrait of Reis Effendi reading, c.1730. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
28. Warren Chappell, Portrait of Don Quixote reading. University of Virginia Library, used with permission.
29. Pieter Mortier Luyken, Don Quixote on Rosinante, Sancho Panza on donkey, 1696. Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam.
30. Windmills at La Mancha. ©maciektrzopek, Depositphoto
31. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza at sunset. ©deVetal777, Depositphoto
32. Elias Gottlieb Haussmann, Portrait of J.S. Bach. Stadtgeshichtliches Museum, Leipzig, Eric Lessing/Art
Resource
33. Leipzig Town Councillors. Photos by Gert Mothes, used with kind permission of the Stadtgeschictliches
Museum Leipzig.
34. Images of Damascene manuscripts from the Refaiya Collection, Leipzig University Library. Used with kind
permission of the library.
35. Small books from the library of Ahmad ar-Rabbats, photo by Anke Scharrahs. Used with kind permission
of Anke Scharrahs and Leipzig University Library.
36. Syrian coffee house, 1756, from Patrick Russell, The Natural History of Aleppo, Alexander and Patrick
Russell.
37. Video footage of whirling dervishes of Damascus and Ensemble Al Kindi performing in Leipzig.
©EuroArts 2002. Used with kind permission of EuroArtsChannel.
38. Images of restoration of Dresden Damascus Room, photos by Anke Scharrahs. Used with kind
permission of Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden, Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
39. Frederick Leighton, Richard and Isobel Burton’s House in Damascus. LBRUT, Orleans House Gallery,
Twickenham, U.K., used with permission.
40. Alberto Pasini, Street in Damascus. Philadelphia Museum of Art, used with permission.
41. Courtyard in Damascus/Old street in Damascus. ©pingvin121674, Depositphoto.
42. The court of a house, Damascus, photo by Chronicle C. Alamy stock photo.
43. Candied fruits at the Al-Bzouriyé souq, Damascus, photo by J.D. Dallet. Alamy stock photo.
44. Damascus bazaar at evening, photo by Images and Stories. Alamy stock photo.
45. Damascus, Bab Touma Quarter, photo by Michael Falzone. Alamy stock photo.
46. The underground chapel of Ananias of Damascus, Damascus, photo by Jens Benninghofen. Alamy stock
photo.
47. Azem palace, Damascus, photo by Robert Preston Photography. Alamy stock photo.
48. Old House, Madhat Pasha, Damascus, photo by Expuesto – Nichoals Randall. Alamy stock photo.
This document is for reference only and is not to be used for house programmes: tour presenters will be sent
programme material specific to their performances.