Tradeswoman from Morlaix, Brittany, France, in her Sunday best. In tall conical lace coiffe, shawl, lace apron, full skirts, with gold cross at throat, rosary at her waist, holding a book. Artisanne de Morlaix, Finistere. Taken from La Galerie royale des costumes, 1846. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Celestin Deshayes from Musée Cosmopolite, Musée de Costumes, Cosmopolitan Museum, published by ancienne maison Aubert, Paris, 1850.

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