Moorish merchant with tobacco pipe, Algeria
Moorish merchant with tobacco pipe, Algeria. In turban, hooded burnous, blue jacket with orange sleeves, white culottes. The Moors were descendants of ancient Mauritania and Numidia. Marchand Maure. Handcoloured woodcut by Doms 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
14017132
Media ID
46699087
Size
4371px x 7206px
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Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
Doms
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Archivist Auguste Wahlen Burnous Culottes Descendants Doms Jean-francois-nicolas Loumyer Manners Mauritania Moeurs Moors Numidia Pseudonym Tobacco Pipe Woodblock Engraving
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