Image / [Costume of the poorer classes of inhabitants of Tenerife, Canary Islands]

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Title: [Costume of the poorer classes of inhabitants of Tenerife, Canary Islands]
Creator: Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlief (1769-1857), German, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1803 and 1807]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Four women in Spanish-style dress and child stand on waterfront platform; man in naval uniform points out to sea; another man gestures towards women.
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in ink): Kostüm der ärmeren Klasse der Bewohner von Teneriffa; (UR): 2; (LR): Dr. Tilesius. Handwritten (on verso): Langsdorff... Inscriptions in German.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: ink and wash 10.6 x 15.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4n39p2pz
BANC PIC 1963.002:1002--ffALB
Subject: Canary Islands
Children
Clothing & dress
Discovery & exploration
Expeditions & surveys
Military personnel
Voyages to the Pacific
Women

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