Peasant from Roskilde

A hand-coloured carte-de-visite portrait of a Danish woman wearing the traditional costume of her region. A caption in French identifies her as a 'peasant from the district of Roskilde' and as a 'reaper,' while according to a Danish caption she is a 'peasant from Hedebo-Egnen' wearing 'harvest costume.'

According to Danish Wikipedia, Hedeboegnen denotes the triangular area between Høje-Taastrup, Roskilde and Køge. The name refers to the fact that the area was woodless in a period when most of Denmark was wooded.

Photographed by Hansen, Schou and Weller of Copenhagen.