Peasant Women in Traditional Dress from Ingria (color plate) (Q319)
Hand-colored ethnographic illustration showing a peasant woman from Ingria and an Estonian (Livonian) woman in traditional attire, from a multilingual atlas published in Leipzig in 1803. The “Lettin” refers to Latvian / Livonian peoples — often used imprecisely in 19th-century ethnographic literature. “Esthonienne” and “Эстландская” refer to what we now call Estonians. “Ingria” refers to a region historically near modern Saint Petersburg, with a distinct Finnic population (Ingrians).
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Peasant Women in Traditional Dress from Ingria (color plate) |
Hand-colored ethnographic illustration showing a peasant woman from Ingria and an Estonian (Livonian) woman in traditional attire, from a multilingual atlas published in Leipzig in 1803. The “Lettin” refers to Latvian / Livonian peoples — often used imprecisely in 19th-century ethnographic literature. “Esthonienne” and “Эстландская” refer to what we now call Estonians. “Ingria” refers to a region historically near modern Saint Petersburg, with a distinct Finnic population (Ingrians). |