Caption:
A Copt man and woman of Egypt, 1818. Coptic Christian people of Egypt in front of the pyramids. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century.