Fashionable woman in a capote hood at Cafe Frascati, 1798. She wears a braided capote hat decorated with a butterfly. Tunic dress with laced sleeves, shawl worn over one shoulder. Cafe Frascati was a popular Italian icecream parlor on Blvd. Montmartre. Capote Nattée, garnie dun Papillon. Manches lacées. Schall en Echarpe. 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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