Catherine de Medicis, Queen of France, wife to King Henry II. Velvet or satin hat, gold chain, gauze ruff collar, black velvet cape, black velvet gown with gold braid. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Jean-Antoine le Brun or Lebrun-Tossa’s Journal de la Mode et du Gout, previously Cabinet des Modes, Chez Buisson, Paris, and Joseph le Boffe, London, 5me Cahier, 5 April 1790.

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