Fashionable woman with bookcase and lyre, 1800. She wears a lace veil instead of hairstyle. Voile tenant lieu de Coeffure. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1800. The illustrations in volume 4 were by Carle Vernet, Bosio, Dutailly and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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