Tattooed Burmese Farmer and His Wife, 1800, Paper

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Tattooed Burmese Farmer and His Wife – Antique Costume Print, circa 1800 This detailed early 19th-century Dutch engraving titled “Een … Read more Tattooed Burmese Farmer and His Wife – Antique Costume Print, circa 1800 This detailed early 19th-century Dutch engraving titled “Een Birmansche Boer en Boerin” (“A Burmese Farmer and Farmer’s Wife”) presents a traditional Burmese couple in full costume, offering a rare visual record of rural Burmese attire and customs as perceived by European observers. Created around 1800, the print likely originates from a Dutch edition of a colonial travel narrative, such as the account of Michael Symes’s 1795 British embassy to the Kingdom of Ava (Burma), which was widely translated and illustrated. See less