Costumes of Moldavia, Romania and Circassia, 1858. Moldavian priest, Wallachian (Romanian) peasants in colourful costumes, Circassian soldiers in chainmail armour and turban with musket and scimitar, and Moldavian woman with wooden water butt. 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. Religieux Moldave, paysans de la Valachie, Circassiens, femme Moldovalaque.

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