The art of beauty
A Victorian handbook on dress and personal appearance written and illustrated by Mary Eliza Haweis, published in London by Chatto & Windus in 1883 for middle-class women readers interested in reforming fashion. The pen drawings are line-only head studies and full-length figures showing medieval and Renaissance headdresses, veils, plaited hair and trained gowns, usable as clean silhouettes, costume reference and spot illustrations.
