Merveilleuse or fashionable woman doing embroidery with a hoop, 1800. She wears a velvet hat with a feather called a weeping plume. Decollete dress cut under the nipples and Spencer jacket. Chapeau de velours. Plume dite Pleureuse. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1800. The illustrations in volume 4 were by Carle Vernet, Bosio, Dutailly and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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