Man and woman of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1818

Man and woman of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1818. The man smokes a tobacco pipe and holds a lance, the woman wears a short tunic dress and holds a basket of fruit. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Venning's A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century

1818 Ceylon Cochin Cochinchina Descriptions Educational Tutor Venning

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