Costumes of India, 1858. Dancing girls in sari with a type of sitar, Brahmin man in dhoti with wife in sari and nosering, Nawab in turban smoking a hookah pipe, carried in a palanquin with a servant holding a parasol. Palace or mosque domes in the background. Bayaderes, Brame et sa femme, Nabab se promenant en palanquin. Handcoloured and sepia-tinted lithograph by Jean-Adolphe Bocquin from Elisabeth Muller (pseudonym of Leonie Bedelet)’s Le Monde en Estampes, The World in Prints, Amadee Bedelet, Paris, 1858.

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