Regency woman reading a letter wearing a carriage dress. Morning dress in India muslin with needlework border a la Grecque, French wrapping coat of grey silk, trimmed with swansdown. Beehive hat with ostrich feathers on table. Plate 29, November 1 1811. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Uwins from Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, London.

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