Jeune Dame vêtue d’une Robe à la Circassienne 1775.
Jeune Dame vêtue d’une Robe à la Circassienne bordée de bandes en platitudes peintes, dans le plus nouveau goût; Coiffure ordinaire furmonté d’un Turban à la Moresque garni de plumes.
Young lady dressed in a Circassian dress lined with painted complaint stripes, in the newest taste; Ordinary hairstyle furmonté of a Turban in the Moresque style trimmed with feathers.
Source: 1er Cahier de la Collection d’habillements modernes et galants avec les habillements des princes et seigneurs. Paris 1780. Dessiné par Claude-Louis Desrais; Gravé par Martial Deny; Carl de Vinck. Éditeur et marchand, André Basset. Published in the Galerie des modes et costumes français, by Jacques Esnault and Michel Rapilly.
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