Caption:
Costumes of Kurds and Persians. Mountain Kurd with cudgel and shield 1, Persian man in silk summer outfit 2, and Persian women in shawl or turban, tunic and pantaloons 3,4. 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.