Girls in traditional dress, Marken Island, Netherlands Late Heian Period 45 posters in humourous juxtaposition

45 posters in humourous juxtaposition on a fence

c1896-1910

and dressed in a white shirt and lace cravat over which is a loose brown robe

The plate is inscribed: 'The Hand of a Boy with a distempered SKIN and the Common Servis û Sorbus torminalis se Gerald's Herbal by Johnson Page 1471

including man with horse transporting barrel and three men in foriegn costume

Girls in traditional dress, Marken Island, Netherlands Late Heian Period 45 posters in humourous juxtapositionGirls in traditional dress, Marken Island, Netherlands, 1898. The former island of Marken is a peninsula, now connected to the North Holland mainland by a causeway. It is well known for its characteristic wooden houses. Illustration from a book of photographs taken in Holland and Belgium by James Batkin, (1898).