
Parisian women's fashion, regne of Louis XVI, 1777.
Parisian women's fashion, reign of Louis XVI, 1777. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet after Moreau the younger from the Pauquet Brothers' Modes et Costumes Historiques (Historical Fashions and Costumes), Paris, 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century, specializing in illustrated books on costume, birds, butterflies, anatomy and natural history.
Credit
Science Museum London
Dimensions
4458 x 6528 pixels
Print Size @ 300 dpi
15 x 22 inches / 38 x 55 cm