Hand-colored engraving of a Jewish woman from Algiers. Engraving after Théophile Emmanuel Duverger. From Die Völker des Erdballs nach ihrer Abstammung und Verwandtschaft und ihren Eigenthümlichkeiten in Regierungsform, Religion, Sitte und Tracht by Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus, published Brüssel und Leipzig: Carl Muquardt.
Fromt the William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection – Prints and Photographs held at the College of Charleston Libraries.
Shavuah tov!
Lovely picture, but — are her sleeves somehow knotted to each other behind her back? I can’t quite parse the outfit.
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