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| [ Untitled ] plate # 202. 13 x 14.5 cms. In text copperplate of a Greek Cypriot woman, with additional text on verso. ......"to all these ( abundance of Wild Fowl on the Island) there is yet another advantage to be added, which is, that a man may travel as securely all over the island as he may do in his own house. The Greeks of this Country are naturally very Civil and Affectionate, generally exercising themselves in Husbandry........." de Bruyn is here being kinder to the Cypriots than Pococke who followed him forty years later! ......... "The Habit of the Women is much like what the copperplate represents it, their head-dress is only a kerchief made fast about the head, and is either brown or gray, strypt with black, gold or silver, and sometimes with embroidery. For their habit they wear all sorts of silk stuffs, about the neck of their shifts they have a kind of a fringe, which is wrought after that manner out of the same linen, and imitation of lace, from the pit of the stomach to the top of the left side, as may be seen in the figure, and they generally make the same work on the sleeves. The rest of their Habit is like that of the Turkish women......" Price: CyP 250.00 ( you might also care to view another plate of a Cypriot woman sketched 200 years later; Click Here |