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La Belle Assemble-Evening Dress

La Belle Assemble-Evening Dress

A beautiful hand colored litho from 1812 from La Belle Assemblee magazine. Small hole at top of print and small tears where it was removed from magazine.
Additional information in “About the artists” section.

La Belle Assemble-Carriage Costume

La Belle Assemble-Carriage Costume

A beautiful hand colored litho from 1813 from La Belle Assemblee magazine. Small hole at top of print and small tears where it was removed from magazine.
Additional information in “About the artists” section.

La Belle Assemblée

About the La Belle Assemblée John Bell (1745-1831) ran Bell’s Circulating Library, which c. 1778-1780, according to one of its catalogues had “above fifty thousand volumes (English, Italian, and French) in history, antiquities, voyages …” La Belle Assemblee was also sometimes called Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine or the Court Magazine and Belle Assemblee. The […]

La Belle Assemblee-A Lady of Quality

La Belle Assemblee-A Lady of Quality

A beautiful hand colored litho from 1808 from La Belle Assemblee magazine.
Additional information in “About the artists” section.