Fashionable woman or Merveilleuse in a toque cap, 1801. The cap was called a parson’s nose or cul de poule. Her low-cut, nipple-revealing tunic dress with a long waist. Tunique en cul de poule. Robe à taille Longue. 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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