Caption:
A Tatar woman in bonnet with kaschpour, 18th century. She wears a blue shift with embroidered and beaded handkerchief, beaded riband, scaled bonnet adorned with money and medals. Tatar woman of Kazan, Tatarshan, Russia. Femme Tatare de Kazan. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander from J-B. Eyries La Russie: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Russes, Russia: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Russians, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1823. Jean-Baptiste Eyries (1767-1846) was a French geographer, author and translator.