Russian serf woman spinning wool, Mararmoros County, Kingdom of Hungary, 18th century. She wears home-spun and home-sewn clothes of embroidered white shift with lace sleeves, linen kerchief on her head, green apron. She spins wool on a distaff. Russniac peasant woman of the Palatinate of Marmoros, Femme Russiaque du Comte de Marmarosch. 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.
Russian serf woman spinning wool, Mararmoros County, Kingdom of Hungary, 18th century. She wears home-spun and home-sewn clothes of embroidered white shift with lace sleeves, linen kerchief on her head, green apron. She spins wool on a distaff. Russniac peasant woman of the Palatinate of Marmoros, Femme Russiaque du Comte de Marmarosch. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander from J-B. Eyries’ L'Autriche: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Autrichiens, Austriia: 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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