Woman dancing at a ball. She wears foliage in her hair, and a low-cut ball gown trimmed with green ribbons and bows. Costume de Bal. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Dames et des Modes, Magazine of Women and Fashion, Paris, An 11, 1803. Illustrations by Carle Vernet, Jean-Francois Bosio, Dominique Bosio and Philibert Louis Debucourt, engraved by Pierre-Charles Baquoy.

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