Tatar peasants of the Crimean peninsula (Ukraine). A pipe-smoking peasant points, a woman milks a dairy cow, and a farmer drives two Bactrian camels pulling a hay waggon. Habitants de la Peninsule Taurique. Drawn by Christian Gottfried Heinrich Geissler for ethnographer Peter Simon Pallas. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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