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  • Jewelry maker. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian coral merchant selling jewelry to a woman. Gouache drawing.
  • Various gold trinkets, pieces of gold jewelry, gold amulets, stools, gold nuggets and scales for measuring gold. Engraving.
  • A Jewish pedlar with a box of watches and jewelry offers them for sale to a young woman. Coloured engraving, 1827.
  • A pedlar of jewelry reads from a sheet, ladies inspect his wares, and a shepherd looks delighted. Engraving by S. Davenport after J. Holmes after C.R. Leslie.
  • A young woman in mourning dress. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868/1872.
  • A young woman in mourning dress. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868/1872.
  • A man is piercing a girl's ear for an earring. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly, 1824.
  • A woman holding a flower. Ink drawing.
  • A man is selling song sheets at a fair;  a crowd has gathered to watch a Punch and Judy show. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Two Bulgarian women wearing national dress.
  • Bangle woman, Madras, India. Watercolour drawing.
  • A Nayar lady with distinctive hairstyle. Chromolithograph.
  • An old lady sitting at her dressing table mirror holding flowers, two younger women are putting feathers in her hair. Etching attributed to J. Falck after B. Strozzi.
  • Two couples in a dance position. Ink drawing.
  • A woman posing in a photographic studio, wearing an embriodered dress.
  • A courtesan holding a rose. Watercolour drawing.
  • M. A. Slavina, in front of a plain, or airbrushed, background.
  • A courtesan reclining on cushions. Watercolour drawing.
  • Brahman. Gouache drawing.
  • A woman posing in a photographic studio, wearing a bridal? dress and veil, in front of a plain backdrop.
  • Two money-lenders counting their money, the one writing the ledger wears spectacles. Mezzotint after Q. Matsys.
  • A young woman posing in a photographic studio, wearing an unusual dress, in front of a plain backdrop.
  • A young Kashmiri girl, posing naked sitting back on some fabric.
  • A female bullfighter, with flowers in her hair, wearing a matador's jacket. Photograph by Castillo, ca. 1900.
  • A raja holding a rose. Coloured ink drawing.
  • Bangle maker and his wife. Watercolour drawing.
  • A heavily jewelled Lakshmi with a halo. Chromolithograph.
  • A young Afghan woman, posing semi-naked against a plain background.
  • A woman leaning wistfully on a large cushion. Chromolithograph, 1867.