Noble woman of Java, Indonesia. She wears a low-cut dodot revealing her breasts (scratched out), a batik sarong, sabuk (waistband), kemban (corset), gold necklace and bracelets. Adapted from a painting by William Daniell in Sir Thomas Raffles’ History of Java, 1824. Java, dame de la haute classe. Handcoloured stipple engraving 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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