Fashionable woman or Religieuse new to society, in linen gown a la Vestale decorated with galon d'or, gauze fichu, hairstyle with five rows of curls a la passion, chignon, black gauze pouf bonnet with aigrette and knot of nakara ribbons. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Jean-Antoine le Brun or Lebrun-Tossa’s Journal de la Mode et du Gout, previously Cabinet des Modes, Chez Buisson, Paris, and Joseph le Boffe, London, 4me Cahier, 25 March 1790.

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