Fashionable woman with chair, 1798. She wears a satin hood cap decorated with clovers and feathers, a cut garland on the side. Velvet belt criss-crossed over the bust. Capote en satin ornee de Trefles et deux plumes. Guirlande decoupee sur le cote. Velours croise formant ceinture. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1798. The illustrations in volume 1 were by Carle Vernet, Claude Louis Desrais and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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