Young peasant of Cheb or Eger, Bohemia (Czech Republic), in winter dress. He wears a hat with a ribbon, brown surtout, embroidered waistcoat, large Turkish breeches, hose and buckle shoes. He smokes a tobacco pipe. Jeune paysan d'Egra en habit d'hiver. 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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