Regency lady in ball gown and fashionable head-dress. Dress of spotted gauze over a satin slip, low-cut bust with blond lace quilling, transparent gauze sleeves, fichu a la Marmotte in satin and blond lace. Designed by milliner and dress-maker Mrs Bell of 52 St James’s Street. Vol. 4, Plate 27, November 1817. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Uwins from Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, Strand, London.

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