Kalmyk people inside a tent or gher, drinking tea, smoking tobacco, sitting on carpets while an artist in western dress sketches them. The Kalmyks or Oirats are westen Mongols who migrated to the western shore of the Caspian sea. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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