Fashionable woman seen at Tivoli Gardens, 1798. She wears a kerchief headdress tied under the chin with an artificial hairband. Seethrough black shawl and dress with ruffles at the bottom. Jardin de Tivoli was a popular amusement park. Coeffure en Fichu. Tour de Cheveux postiche. Falbalas Sous la Robe. 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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