Fabric shop workers. Women in muslin dresses, bonnets and shawls embroidering, sewing, cutting cloth and wrapping bolts of fabric. "If ever coquetry were lost by women, one would find it again at the ladies counter." Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.

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