Habit Noir print from Samuel Pepys' collection (IMAGE)

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Habit Noir print from Samuel Pepys' collection

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Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean, Habit Noir (evening wear), etching c. 1670. A print collected by Samuel Pepys showing a fashionable elite Frenchman proudly wearing lace cuffs and ribbons.

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Reproduced by permission of the Pepys Library, Magdalene College Cambridge

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