Noble woman of Venice, after Vittorio Gatteri, 1557.

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Noble woman of Venice, after Vittorio Gatteri, 1557. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet from the Pauquet Brothers' "Modes et Costumes Etrangers Anciens et Modernes" (Foreign Fashions and Costumes Ancient and Modern), Paris, 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century, specializing in illustrated books on costume, birds, butterflies, anatomy and natural history.

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