Fashionable woman blessing herself with holy water from a font inside an old Gothic church, Paris, 1839. She wears a bonnet tied with a ribbon, fur-lined capelet, dress with full skirts. Handcoloured drypoint or pointe-seche etching by Henri Boutet from Les Modes Feminines du XIXeme Siecle (Female Fashions of the 19th Century), Ernest Flammarion, Paris, 1902. Boutet (1851-1919) was a French artist, engraver, lithographer and designer.

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