Woman in front of the Chinese Baths on the Boulevard des Capucines, 1849. Woman in full crinoline, shawl and bonnet. Les bains chinois were built in 1787 by Samson-Nicolas Lenoir and comprised 60 luxury bath cabins, a restaurant, cafe and boutiques. Handcoloured lithograph by after an illustration by Francois Courboin from Octave Uzanne’s Fashion in Paris, William Heinemann, London, 1898.

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