• Fig. 16. “Londoners, English Peasants, Scottish Highlanders, Hollanders or Dutch,” Cosmorama: The Manners, Customs, and Costumes, of all the Nations of the World Described by J. Aspin. New Edition. London: John Harris, 1834. Plate 5. Hand-colored engraving. Special Collections and University Archives, Iowa State University Library.

“Londoners,” “English Peasants,” “Scottish Hollanders” and “Hollanders or Dutch,” Cosmorama: The Manners, Customs, and Costumes, of all the Nations of the World

From Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century by Sandra Tomc

  • Four illustrations of national and regional types: elegant Londoners dressed in sleek metropolitan clothes; English peasants wearing baggy shirts and red cloaks; Scottish highlanders wearing traditional plaid; and the Dutch wearing floral clothes, short baggy breeches, and large straw hats.
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  • American Studies
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