French Revolutionary dandy in checkered violet coat, batiste cravatte, bazin waistcoat, scarlet cashmere culottes, silk hose, silver buckle shoes, with cane-sabre and top hat. Woman in bonnet of crepe veil over a brass wire frame, violet taffeta pierrot, gauze fichu, white taffeta petticoat decorated with ribbons, green fan. 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, 1790.

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