Woman in blue dress with seethrough shawl in the fashion of 1798. She wears a triple gold chain with flat links as a headband. Her seethrough linon shawl is edged with a red applique ribbon. Triple chaine d'or a maillons plats servant de bandeau. Schall de linon, borde d'un ruban applique. 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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