This engraving from 1750 depicts one of the Cassette Girls, or Pelican Girls, leaving her family to head to the French territory of La Louisiane, in what is now the American Southeast. The engraving is based on a painting by noted French artist Antoine Watteau.
Pelican Girl Leaving Her Family
![](https://bunny-wp-pullzone-5vqgtgkbhi.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Pelican-Girl-Departing-for-La-Louisiane.jpg)
Photo courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Appears In
![](https://bunny-wp-pullzone-5vqgtgkbhi.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Pelican-Girl-Departing-for-La-Louisiane.jpg)