Dawn

Fashion design by Léon Sault. Woman's masquerade ball dress. 'Dawn'. Watercolour drawing probably for Charles Frederick Worth. Paris, 1860s. Watercolour drawing, a design for a theatrical or masquerade fancy-dress ball costume representing the sun rising through clouds, while the moon is shown setting on the hem of the skirt which remains in darkness, with moths in flight.  Watercolour and pencil …