Fashionable woman in an embroidered toque cap, tight Spencer or bolero jacket and low-cut shift dress. She carrries a book of solfeggio or singing exercises and a ridicule bag. 30 April 1801. Toquet Brode, a Pontes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1801. The illustrations in volume 4 were by Carle Vernet, Bosio, Dutailly and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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