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Costume Parisien

Print

Fashion plate depicting five women. Top left in a white dress with a wide décolletage, a red shawl, and a white, turban-like headdress. Bottom left in a tan, fur-trimmed coat (?) with a white, plumed hat. Top right in a tan dress with white sleeves that stop at the elbow and a blue headdress. Bottom right in a white dress with a wide, frilled décolletage and a white, turban-like headdress. Middle in a white dress with red detailing and a white turban-like headdress.

2022.35.0055

Paper

Colored Engraving

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Fashion Plate

Historic Costume

Journal des Dames et des Modes

1800 - 1801

Early 19th Century

19th Century

Costume Parisien.

French

print

fashion plate

Old Number

90.273.02

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