National Costume Collection (page 7)

Russian Peasant, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Russian Peasant, 1809. The everyday dress of the men is a blouse and canvas trousers with an all over coarse, brown, long skirted coat or kaftan

French Woman and Child Selling Fruit, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
French Woman and Child Selling Fruit, 1809. In Normandy the high white cap, which is sometimes worn much higher than in the picture, is now going out of fashion

Spanish Muleteer, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Spanish Muleteer, 1809. The Muleteer in the picture is stopping to rest at a way-side inn, where, when he has stabled his mule in the stall and given him some food will take the saddle bags

Norwegian Farm Girl, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Norwegian Farm Girl, 1809. The dress of a country girl is very pretty, Her hair is drawn back off her face and plaited with red braids in two long tails

Two German Girls with Baskets of Flowers, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Two German Girls with Baskets of Flowers, 1809. The dress of the peasant women of Germany is seldom exactly the same even in two neighouring villages

Bavarian Peasant, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Bavarian Peasant, 1809. The dress of a Bavarian peasant consists of a grey shooting jacket, green waistcoat and a broad belt of ornamented leather round the waist

Norwegian Woodcutter, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Norwegian Woodcutter, 1809. The farmers in Norway are said to be the happiest people in the world, they are not common farmers and the land is their own

Dutch Man Skating with a Basket of Vegatables, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Dutch Man Skating with a Basket of Vegatables, 1809. The Dutch are somewhat like the English in appearance. The ancient national costume of the men consists of wide breeches

Russian Woman with Baby, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Russian Woman with Baby, 1809. The costume of the woman is composed of a crimson cotton or silk skirt, called a seraphan. This is fastened to a low bodice which, has broad straps over the shoulders

Belgian Milk-Woman, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Belgian Milk-Woman, 1809. Here you see the image of a milk-woman with her brass milk pails, which she keeps bright and clean and are carried about the town by donkeys in panniers

Danish Woman selling Flowers, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Danish Woman selling Flowers, 1809. The Danes are a quiet, industrious people who occupy themselves mainly with trading

Hungarian Man with Dogs, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Hungarian Man with Dogs, 1809. The Hungarian is a fine looking man with long black hair and moustache and a dark complexion

Swedish Woman Rowing, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Swedish Woman Rowing, 1809. The girl in the picture belongs to the province of Dalecarlia. There the woman are taller, stronger and more attractive than in the other provinces

Italian Musician, 1809. Artist: W Dickes
Italian Musician, 1809. The households in Italy are generally large and in the summer evenings after the labour of the day is over they all dance together to the music of the pipe and tambourine

Peasants from the valley of Ossun, France, 1879. On the left is a woman with a spindle

Spaniards, 1886

Peasants of Auvergne, France, 19th century

Poles of Volhynia, western Ukraine, 1879. Polish hunters with their catch

Peasants of Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 1879

Types and costumes in Norway, 1879. Artist: Hildibrand
Types and costumes in Norway, 1879. Traditional costume from the Hardanger, Saetersdalen, and the interior of Norway

Types and costumes in Lapland, 1879. Artist: Elix
Types and costumes in Lapland, 1879. Saami people from northern Scandinavia in traditional costume. The Saami were formerly known as Lapps or Laplanders, terms now considered derogatory

Types and costumes in Finland, 1879. Artist: C Laplante
Types and costumes in Finland, 1879

Bulgarians, 1879. Artist: Pierre Fritel
Bulgarians, 1879. Christian from Viddin, Christian Ladies from Skodra, Mahommedans from Viddin, a native of Koyutepe

The Confession, Mount Athos, northern Greece, 1886. A man confesses to Greek Orthodox priest

The European Concert, 1897. Artist: Henri Meyer
The European concert, 1897. Satire relating to the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. Also called the Thirty Days War, the conflict began after Greeces nationalist government declared war on the Ottoman

The Queen at the Fete in the Forest of St Germain, France, mid-late 19th century, (1887)Artist: William Barnes Wollen
The Queen at the Fete in the Forest of St Germain, France, mid-late 19th century, (1887). Queen Victoria in an open carriage

New Elgin Marbles, 1860. Lord Elgin (of the Elgin Marbles fame), holds a marble the size and weight of the cannonballs with which Peking had been threatened

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