Costumes of Egypt, 1858. Cairo woman in niqab face veil with jug on her head, porter with donkey, Egyptian infantry soldier in fez with musket, Fellah (farmer) man and woman in niqab, snake charmer with cobra and oud player. Femme de Caire, Anier, soldat d'infanterie Egyptienne, Fellahs, homme et femme, charmeurs de serpents. Handcoloured and sepia-tinted lithograph by Jean-Adolphe Bocquin after an illustration by Felix Fossey from Elisabeth Muller (pseudonym of Leonie Bedelet)’s Le Monde en Estampes, The World in Prints, Amadee Bedelet, Paris, 1858.

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