Costume of an Egyptian arab woman

Costume of an Egyptian arab woman. She wears a black triangular linen veil covering the face (half niqab), white head scarf, long blue robe, and carries two bowls. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Octavian Dalvimart from William Alexander's translation of Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks, Thomas M'Lean, London, 1814

Bowls Georgian Era Head Scarf Octavian Dalvimart Ottoman Empire Regency Era Slippers Thomas Mlean William Alexander

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