Girls in traditional dress, Marken Island, Netherlands Late Heian Period printed by J McCreery

printed by J McCreery

Katsushika (1760-1849)

including man with horse transporting barrel and three men in foriegn costume

The plate is inscribed: 'The Hand of a Boy with a distempered SKIN and the Common Servis û Sorbus torminalis se Gerald's Herbal by Johnson Page 1471

Girls in traditional dress, Marken Island, Netherlands Late Heian Period printed by J McCreeryGirls in traditional dress, Marken Island, Netherlands, 1898. The former island of Marken is a peninsula, now connected to the North Holland mainland by a causeway. It is well known for its characteristic wooden houses. Illustration from a book of photographs taken in Holland and Belgium by James Batkin, (1898).