A bodycolour painting of a crowded pictorial historical narrative, showing Constantinople in upper right, Sultan just below, his camp and tents upper-left along with "the brave people & lovers of country". Figure of Greece, lower left.

In 1836 General Makriyannis (1797-1864) commissioned the Spartan artist Panayotis Zographos, a 'veteran of the Revolution', to paint a set of 24 oils on panel, illustrating the Greek War of Independence (1821-7) and especially the General's part in it. The scenes were painted between 1836 and 1839, with Makriyannis taking the artist to the battle sites. Demetrios Zographos, probably the artist's elder son, and his brother stayed at Makriyannis's house to paint four sets of copies of the pictures in bodycolour on paper for presentation to King Otto of Greece and the ministers in residence at Athens of the three powers responsible for setting up the Greek state after the war, Great Britain, France and Russia.

The British set was given to the Foreign Office by General Makriyannis in 1839, apparently dispatched by Sir Edmund Lyons to Lord Palmerston and presented to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle, as a gift from the people of Greece. The sets sent to France and Russia are untraced, but the set sent to King Otto of Greece is probably that now in the Gennadius Library of the American School of Archaeology in Athens.