Ali Pasha of Tepelena or of Yannina (Janina, Ioannina), surnamed Aslan, "the Lion", or the "Lion of Yannina" (1740-1822), was a Muslim Albanian ruler who served as an Ottoman pasha of the western part of Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire's European territory, which was referred to as the Pashalik of Yanina

At this time (1855) Yannina (Ioannina) was the capital of an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. In 1913 it became part of Greece. In the print, the audience chamber of the pasha is seen on a very bright day. A man (or Ali Pasha if this is a reconstruction of a past scene) sits on a divan (sedir) and meets with one of his visitors at the corner of the saloon, while others wait in a queue to speak to him. The ceiling is elaborately ornamented with scrollwork mouldings.[2]