Description
- Abstract:
- The people depicted in this plate are observing the comet from a balcony typical of the kind of building constructed along Haussman's boulevards. The man is dressed in a black evening costume. The woman in the foreground wears a wide, brightly colored dress supported by a crinoline. Abstract source: Boucher, François. 20,000 Years of Fashion. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1967.
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Citation
"Watching the Comet:
on the Boulevards (1857)
"
(1898).
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:86438/
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Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
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