Married woman of Estonia, 18th century. She wears a hat painted with flowers, white shift, painted corset, bordered apron and petticoats, earrings and necklace of glass beads. Femme d'Estonie. 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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