Peasant of Slovenia (Upper Carniola), in summer dress, 18th century. He wears a wide-brim hat, brown frock coat over his shoulders, white shirt, breeches and boots, and carries a stick. Paysan de la haute Carniole, en habit d'ete. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander from J-B. Eyries’ L'Autriche: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Autrichiens, Austria: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Austrians, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1823. Jean-Baptiste Eyries (1767-1846) was a French geographer, author and translator.

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