Caption:
Slav youth of Nitra Country, Kingdom of Hungary (Slovakia), 18th century. He wears a holiday dress, hat decked with ribbons, embroidered jacket, blue pantaloons, Hungarian half-boots with a tobacco pipe in the right one. Schlavonian man of the County of Neutra, Paysan Slovaque du Comte de Neutra. 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.