Welsh peasant women washing clothes in a stream. In bonnet, wimple, kerchief, chemise and skirts. After being rinsed in a clear and rapid stream, clothes are beaten with a wooden paddle on a smooth flat stone and laid out to dry on rocks or grass. After an illustration in William Henry Pyne's Costume of Great Britain, 1808. Hand-coloured copperplate engraving by William Alexander from his own Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English, John Murray, London, 1814.
GLIX-115-3E70M5T
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GLIX Prime
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Welsh peasant women washing clothes in a stream. In bonnet, wimple, kerchief, chemise and skirts. After being rinsed in a clear and rapid stream, clothes are beaten with a wooden paddle on a smooth flat stone and laid out to dry on rocks or grass. After an illustration in William Henry Pyne's Costume of Great Britain, 1808. Hand-coloured copperplate engraving by William Alexander from his own Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English, John Murray, London, 1814.