Iceland wedding dress. Iceland bride 1809.

9/30/16
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Iceland wedding dress, traditional costume. Bride costume
An Icelandic lady in her bridal dress

Iceland wedding dress 1809

Source: Journal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809 by Sir William Jackson Hooker. Published by Longman London, Yarmouth 1813.

Iceland, woman, bride, bridal dress
Drawing of an Icelandic woman in her bridal dress 1772.

Above picture: Different colouring. Created several decades before under “Drawings from Sir Joseph Bank’s Voyage to the Hebrides, Orkneys, and Iceland”. Author: Sir Joseph Banks. Illustrator: John Clovelly. Caption: Drawing of an Icelandic woman in her bridal dress. Iceland; 1772.

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