Fashionable women of the Directoire, 1797. In a cap of gathered gauze with sprig of foliage, Spencer jacket, dress and long shawl. Toquet en gaze Bouillonnee. Spencer par dessus-la Robe, Schall long. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1797. The illustrations in volume 1 were by Carle Vernet, Claude Louis Desrais and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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