A Traveling Tatar Family (Still Image)

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Title:

A Traveling Tatar Family

Description:

A Crimean Tatar family travels on horseback and on foot near Yalta. Women in burkas carry infants in their laps. Demidov writes that "throughout the summer season, the influx of wealthy people who inhabit the southern coast of Crimea offers farmers a profitable outlet for their products..."

The lithograph is dated 15 August 1837.

Creator:

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

Source:

Anatolii Demidov, Album du Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, La Valachie et la Moldavie>, ed. Ernest Bourdin (Paris, 1838)

Date:

1837

Rights:

Image courtesy of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library

Physical Dimensions:

56 cm

Repository:

John Hay Library, Brown University

Citation

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, “A Traveling Tatar Family,” Beautiful Spaces, accessed October 27, 2026, https://beautifulspaces.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/item/665.