Caption:
Costumes of Peru, 18th century: couple from Lima 1, noblewoman of Lima 2, indigenous people 3, indigenous people in their best clothes 4, and inhabitants of Quito 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.