Girls in traditional dress, Marken Island, Netherlands John Britton Rodney Marsh and George Best

Rodney Marsh and George Best

Figure 2 'Testudo mydas' [Green sea turtle Chelonia mydas]

' Individual figures are pasted onto a backing board

a man on crutches and a woman holding a baby

The sitter looks toward the viewer's left and wears an elaborate lace collar and cap

Girls in traditional dress, Marken Island, Netherlands John Britton Rodney Marsh and George BestGirls 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).