Young Jewish woman of Algiers, Algeria. Tall turban, blue embroidered woolen dress with short sleeves over a white chemise. Demoiselle Juive dAlger. Handcoloured woodcut by T.S. and Duverger 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.
Young Jewish woman of Algiers, Algeria. Tall turban, blue embroidered woolen dress with short sleeves over a white chemise. Demoiselle Juive dAlger. Handcoloured woodcut by T.S. and Duverger 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.