Print, hand coloured etching and aquatint

Caption: Court Dress, July 1794. Gallery of Fashion, Vol. 1, April 1794 to March 1795. Published by Nikolaus von Heideloff.
Fig.15: Court Dress. Head-dress of a chiffonet (handkerchief) of Italian gauze; the bandeau composed of three rows of white pearls; two rows of the same pearls twisted round the chiffonet. Three plain white feathers, and two more edged with lilac placed in the head-dress. Several diamond pins, fancifully disposed in the hair. Bell lappets of gauze, tied in different parts with pearls. The hair very lightly frizzed, thrown into a variety of curls and ringlets, and intermixed with the chiffonet. Plain chignon. Petticoat of white silver tissue, trimmed at the bottom with a deep silver fringe, headed with a wreath of bulrushes; festoons of the same tied up with silver tassels. Body and train of striped lilac and silver tissue, trimmed with silver cord. Ruffles of rich blonde; a double pleating of the same round the neck. A plain white bow in the front, and a large bouquet on the left side. Ear- rings and necklace of diamonds. White shoes embroidered with silver.