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Prinking before the ball, 1858. Women primping in front of a mirror. Women in wide dress fixing a bracelet on a woman in off-the-shoulder, flounced crinoline dress. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V
Tarot Card 3 - L Imperatrice (The Empress)
Fashionable women from 1861Pardessus Imperatrice with corded seams; mantle with mauve silk trim; pardessus with scalloped cuff; black & green mantle with guipure pelerine; childs pardessus trimmed with gimp. 1861
Ripe fruit and leaves of the Blue Imperatrice Plum, Prunus domestica.. Handcolored illustration by Edwin Dalton Smith engraved by Watts from Charles McIntoshs Flora and Pomona 1829
Schiller HonouredSCHILLER is honoured by Parisians with a Festival - his bust is crowned in the Cirque de l Imperatrice, in the Champs Elysees. Date: 1859
Ball & Dinner Dress 1861Ball dress: white silk, tulle puffings arranged spirally on the skirt, trimmed with pink roses. Dinner dress: robe imperatrice in sable trimmed green silk, no waist seam
Evening Wear 1860White silk ball dress with 3 skirts of tulle looped up with blue daisies; Magenta moire & black lace evening dress with bodice & skirt in one. N.B girls low cut corsage & sash