Indian costumes including a man from the Coromandel coast and two soldiers from Mysore. Gold coins from the East India Company. 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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