Fashionable woman in ball gown with tiara,1801. She wears a low-cut dress decorated with green ruffles. She holds a fan and a monocle or lorgnette on a chain. Costume de Bal. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1801. The illustrations in volume 4 were by Carle Vernet, Bosio, Dutailly and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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