Fashionable lady with handbag and parasol in front of the monumental arch built at Port Saint-Denis, Paris, 1849. Inscribed Ludovico Magno, it was built by architect Francois Blondel for King Louis XIV in 1672. A horse-drawn coach for Bastille behind. Handcoloured drypoint or pointe-seche etching by Henri Boutet from Les Modes Feminines du XIXeme Siecle (Feminine Fashions of the 19th Century), Ernest Flammarion, Paris, 1902. Boutet (1851-1919) was a French artist, engraver, lithographer and designer.

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