Woman in braided hairstyle and low-cut gown in the style of Queen Mathilde, inspired by a costume in the one-act play La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde, Vaudeville, 1804. Robe a la Reine Mathilde. Pl. 538 in the Paris edition. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Messengere’s Journal des Dames et des Modes, Francfort sur le Mein (Frankfurt) 1804. After illustrations by Carle Vernet, Jean-Francois Bosio, Dominique Bosio and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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