Fashion plate

Hand-coloured engraving showing women's fashions with very large, flounced crinoline skirts. A white ballgown with frills and an aniline violet day dress and bonnet. In the foreground a small child, possibly a boy in high buttoned gaiters, in a green braided jacket and skirt, stands, back to the viewer holding a mirror or a reflective ball in which its face is reflected at an unusual angle.