Costumes of Iceland, 1811

Costumes of Iceland, 1811. Lady in full dress with faldur headdress 1, woman in ordinary dress 2, lady in riding coat 3, man in best clothes with wadmal jacket 4, and Reykjavik pilot in sheepskin outfit 5. Copied from an illustration by Scottish geologist Sir George Steuart Mackenzie in his Travels in the Island of Iceland, 1811. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1, 200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. published from 1790-1830

1815 Bilderbuch Fur Kinder Carl Bertuch Encyclopedia Engraved Plates Friedrich Johann Bertuch Geologist Iceland Natural History Picture Book For Children Reykjavik Riding Coat Sheepskin Sir George Steuart Mackenzie

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