Caption:
Woman and child with Caracalla haircuts, 1798. She wears her hair in the Caracalla-style, a curly version of the Victim cut. A needle-work bag named a Balantine hangs from her waist belt. They both wear Roman tunic dresses and sandals. Cheveux à la Caracalla, Sac à ouvrage, appellé Balantine, Sandales. 1797. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1798. The illustrations in volume 1 were by Carle Vernet, Claude Louis Desrais and Philibert Louis Debucourt.