Caption:
Fashionable woman sketching a nude model at an art class, 1800. She wears a kerchief hairdo, a black velvet Spencer jacket, and white high-necked dress with collar. She sits in a chair and rests her feet on a footstool. Coeffure en Fichu. Spencer de Velours. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1800. The illustrations in volume 4 were by Carle Vernet, Bosio, Dutailly and Philibert Louis Debucourt.