Clothing Styles, Lima, Peru, 1748
Description
A Creole-Lady veiled, going to Church, shows two black female servants (slaves?) with full length skirts and petticoats and turbaned heads (or head ties), accompanying an elaborately dressed European woman to church
Source
A true and particular relation of the dreadful earthquakes: which happen'd at Lima, the capital of Peru . . .1746 (London, 1748; 2nd edition), Plate VII, following p. 259 (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
JCB_07822-4
Spatial Coverage
South America--Peru
Item sets
Citation
"Clothing Styles, Lima, Peru, 1748 ", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed January 23, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/447