Fashionable woman in Minerva hat at Tivoli Gardens, 1798. She wears a Minerva-style hat, named for its similarity to helmet of the Roman goddess of wisdom. The hat is decorated with a wreath of foliage and ribbons. She wears a white apron over a striped dress. 23 June 1798. Jardin de Tivoli. Chapeau a la minerve, robe zebree. 24 Prairial An 6. 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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