Costume of a bourgeois woman. She wears a genteel copy of the merveilleuse fashion: dress in turquoise bordered with satin; hat made of large ribbons tied with grey silk bands. Handcoloured etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot Jr. from Costumes of the Directory; Rouquette; Paris; 1875. The etchings were made from designs by Eugene Lacoste and Draner after prints of the era 1795-99. The costumes are from theatre productions Merveilleuses and Pres Saint-Gervais by Victorien Sardou.