Caption:
Costume of an artisan, 17th century France. In plumed cap, doublet with slashed sleeves, pantalons, gaiters, shoes, using a large hand drill on timber. Artisan, Regne de Louis XIII. Handcoloured lithograph by Lorenzo Bianchi and Domenico Cuciniello after Hippolyte Lecomte from Costumi civili e militari della monarchia francese dal 1200 al 1820, Naples, 1825. Italian edition of Lecomtes Civilian and military costumes of the French monarchy from 1200 to 1820.