Regency lady in opera dress and toque hat, 1817. Blue crape dress over a white satin slip, trimmed with blond lace and pearls, embroidered lilies, tocque a la Berri head-dress, sapphire and pearl necklace. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Uwins from Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, Strand, London.

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