Tatar peasants of the Crimean peninsula (Ukraine)
Tatar peasants of the valleys of the Crimean peninsula (Ukraine). A peasant brings plums and apples to be distilled into brandy or a syrup called Beckmess. Habitants des vallees de la Peninsule Taurique. Drawn by Christian Gottfried Heinrich Geissler for ethnographer Peter Simon Pallas. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1, 200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. published from 1790-1830
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