Girls in traditional dress, Marken Island, Netherlands Late Heian Period 45 posters in humourous juxtaposition

45 posters in humourous juxtaposition on a fence

Oberon and Titania

and dressed in a white shirt and lace cravat over which is a loose brown robe

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

Katsushika (1760-1849)

Girls in traditional dress, Marken Island, Netherlands Late Heian Period 45 posters in humourous juxtapositionGirls 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).