Costume of a Polish Jewish woman pawnbroker or old-clothes woman, 18th century. She wears a fur-lined silk cloak, gold cord belt, damask petticoat with embroidered hem, printed calico apron. Headdress of striped linen kerchief and black hood. Juive Polonaise. 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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