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Samuel Pepys’ fashion plates: Instagram for the 17th century
Antoine Trouvain, Femme de qualité en deshabille negligé, etching, 1695. A print in Samuel Pepys’ collection which looks more professionally coloured. The print depicts an elite French woman wearing informal lounge wear. She appears to be in the process of …