Woman of the Kingdom of Candia, Ottoman Empire, dancing with a kerchief. In pearl-trimmed turban, tunic dress with buttons to the waist, long Chinese sleeves, harem pants. Now the Greek island of Crete. Femme de l'isle de Candie. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.
Woman of the Kingdom of Candia, Ottoman Empire, dancing with a kerchief. In pearl-trimmed turban, tunic dress with buttons to the waist, long Chinese sleeves, harem pants. Now the Greek island of Crete. Femme de l'isle de Candie. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.