Jeune fille Arménienne. Asian costumes by Auguste Wahlen. Manners, customs and costumes of all peoples of the world.
Category: 19th Century
Arab merchant costume. Marchant Arabe 1843.
Arab merchant costume 1843. Marchant Arabe Gallery: Asian costumes by Auguste Wahlen. Manners, customs and costumes of all peoples of the world.
Inhabitant costume of Mount Lebanon in 1843.
Manners, customs and costumes of all peoples of the world, based on authentic documents and the most recent trips by Auguste Wahlen
Costume Arabian girl.
Costume Arabian girl in 1843. Jeune fille Arabe. Gallery: Asian costumes by Auguste Wahlen. Manners, customs and costumes of all peoples of the world.
Chinese archer of the flying dragons, or called scudding clouds.
The Chinese “braves” are employed to aid the civil magistrates as policemen, to act as custom- house officers at the military stations, along the roads, rivers, and canals; and also to mount guard at the city gates.
Se Tseaou Shan, or “The Western Sacred Hills” of Guangxi.
Se Tseaou Shan, or “The Western Sacred Hills” of Guangxi. China, in a series of views, displaying the scenery of that ancient empire.
Rice cultivation at Suzhou, China. Transplanting and Sowing in 1843.
Rice cultivation in ancient China. Landscape, Architecture, Costumes, Temples, Palaces, Manners with description.
The Cataract of Shih Tan, Yangtze River. The western parts of Jiangnan.
In this picturesque locality, and amidst the shattered crags that hang over the seven cataracts, grows the Tong Choo, and also a species of Rhus, from the seeds of which an oil is expressed, used in the composition of a valuable varnish.
The Bridge of Nanjing. Ancient China sceneries.
Near where the Porcelain Tower formerly stood, the largest and principal bridge of Nanjing spans the main trunk of the canal
The Imperial Palace at Ts’ao shan. The three hills of King-kow.
About three miles north-east from Chin-keang-foo, the provincial capital of Jiang Nan (Chinese: 江南;), from the broad bright waters of the Yangtse keang, rise the picturesque and precipitous rocky islets called “the three hills of King-kow.”