Finnish peasant woman in winter wear, 18th century. She wears an dress of coarse walmar cloth, painted and embroidered apron, linen scarf and girdle, necklaces of glass beads. Paysan Finoise. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Johann Gottlieb Georgi from J-B. Eyries’ La Russie: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Russes, Russia: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Russians, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1823. Jean-Baptiste Eyries (1767-1846) was a French geographer, author and translator.

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