74 Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757–1810) – Woman of the Manila Islands (Femme des Isles Manilles) – Hand-coloured Engraving (Circa 1797)

This colorful, hand-coloured engraving, titled "Femme des Isles Manilles" (Woman of the Manila Islands), depicts a female figure in stylized traditional attire from the Manila Islands (Philippines). The woman is shown wearing a long, light-colored skirt, a white embroidered blouse, and a large black shawl or wrap draped over her head and shoulders, standing in a minimal, dry landscape. The print is an ethnographic study, typical of the popular late 18th-century travel and costume books that documented peoples from around the globe, and is sourced from Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur's comprehensive work, Encyclopédie des Voyages or Costumes de Différents Pays.