Luigi Mayer (1755-1803)one of the earliest  18th-century artists to venture east , who travelled through the Ottoman Empire between 1776 and 1794, sketching and painting panoramic landscapes, ancient monuments, and the Nile and its surroundings.
Thomas Milton  (1742/3–1827), printmaker and topographical draughtsman.  (one of the engravers)

Published in 1810  from  Views in the Ottoman Dominions, in Europe and Asia, and Some of the Mediterranean Islands, from the Original Drawings Taken for Sir Robert Ainslie, by Luigi Mayer. London:printed  by T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1810. Large folio (measures 14 inches by 19 inches),From the set of  of 71  large folio hand-colored aquatint plates, after Mayer's drawings of views, mosques, ruins and monuments from the former northern dominions of the Ottoman Empire. While Sir Robert Ainslie was England's ambassador to Turkey at Constantinople from 1776 until 1792 he amassed a collection of original drawings by Luigi Mayer. This work show in  hand coloured folio aquatints, views made by Mayer in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean, including Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Constantinople, Ephesus, Latachia, Tortosa, Samos and Jerusalem. The work completes publisher Bowyer's series of Mayer's views in the Ottoman Empire, the other three volumes of which were originally published separately in 1801, 1803 and 1804. for those click here

Mayer was an Italian-born artist of German descent. The aquatint engraver, Thomas Milton studied under William Woollett, and was extolled by scholar W. Bell Scott as having "a unique power of distinguishing the foliage of trees and the texture of bodies, especially water, as it never had been done before, and never will be done again."

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