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MAG Dress- https://manchesterartgallery.org/coll...
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TdJ Dress- Chemise à la reine 1785-89, musée de la toile de jouy, photos from costumehysteric.blogspot.com/
Met Dress- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...

Great Summary- https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/178...
Great Collections of Paintings of Chemise a la Reine- http://jeannedepompadour.blogspot.com...
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Indian Textile Trade- http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles...

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Image Credits
[1]- Angelica Kauffman, Lady Elizabeth Foster, 1785
[2]- Attributed to Antoine Vestier (1740 - 1824), Portrait of a woman on a terrace, 1780s
[3]- Vigee LeBrun, Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress, 1783, Met Museum
[4]- Vigee Le Brun, Self Portrait with Cerise Ribbons, c. 1782, Met Museum
[5]- Chemise, c. 1780, American, Met Museum
[6]- Vigee Le Brun, Marie Antoinette with a Rose, 1783, Palace of Versailles
[7]- https://en.chateauversailles.fr/disco...
[8]- “Marie Antoinette in her hamlet at Versailles,” by Charles Gustave Housez. 1867.
[9]- Romney, Mrs. Billington as Saint Cecilia, 1787-88, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
[10]- David, Mde and Msr Lavoisier, 1788, Met Museum
[11]- Jen Juel, Princess Louise Augusta of Denmark, 1787
[12]- Mary Chichester by Francis Alleyne (Burton Constable Hall)
[13]- Henri-Pierre Danloux, Harriott Manningham, 1793

Chemise a la Reine, Manchester Art Gallery
Chemise à la reine 1785-89, musée de la toile de jouy, photos from costumehysteric.blogspot.com/.jpg

[14]- Dress, French, c. 1785, Met Museum
[15]- Robe Volante, c. 1730, French, Met Museum
[16]- Dmitry Levitzky, Portrait of Nastas’ya Levitzkaya 1783
[17]- Carle Vernet, Merveilleuse and Incroyable, Paris National Convention, c. 1796
[18]- Pongee (Wild) Silk Dress by Liberty & Co. Ltd. (ca 1895); © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
[19]- Dress, 1804-14, French, Met Museum
[20]- Gelatin Sizing, Diderot Encyclopedie
[21]- Sorting Rags into Grades of Varying quality and strength, Diderot Encyclopedie

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