Costume of a groom, Kolkata, India. In plumed turban, pink shirt with pleated skirts, sash belt, holding a horse-hair fly-whisk or chowrie. Calcutta, Groom. After an illustration by Reginald Heber, Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India. Handcoloured stipple engraving on steel by Choubard after an illustration by Leopold Massard from Collection de portraits et costumes des differens peuples qui habitent les cinq parties du monde, Armand-Aubree, Paris, 1837.

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