Enslaved woman servant in Algiers, Algeria
Enslaved woman servant in Algiers, Algeria. She wears her hair tied in a bandana, embroidered dress, open at the front to reveal red culottes. Esclave servante a Algers. Handcoloured woodcut by Duverger from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium
Picture No
14017118
Media ID
46698586
Size
4541px x 6722px
(5.1MB)
Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
Duverger
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Algiers Archivist Auguste Wahlen Culottes Duverger Jean-francois-nicolas Loumyer Manners Moeurs Pseudonym Slave Trade Woodblock Engraving
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