Caption:
Costume of a Finnish peasant, 18th century. He wears a felt hat, long hair and beard, clothes of walmar cloth, leather belt, knife and staff. Paysan Finois. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Johann Gottlieb Georgi from J-B. Eyries La Russie: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Russes, Russia: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Russians, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1823. Jean-Baptiste Eyries (1767-1846) was a French geographer, author and translator.