Caption:
Peasants of Cheb or Eger, Bohemia (Czech Republic), in summer dress, 18th century. She wears a kerchief tied on her head, sleeveless bodice, petticoat, blue apron. Paysans d'Egra en habit d'ete. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander from J-B. Eyries L'Autriche: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Autrichiens, Austria: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Austrians, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1823. Jean-Baptiste Eyries (1767-1846) was a French geographer, author and translator.