The female cyclist, Henry Somm, 1897

This plate, taken from la parisienne peinte par elle-même, appears in the section on parisian gallantry, and features the female cyclist. Semi-satire on the new-fangled "bicycle suit" that women were starting to wear in order to ride the newly-invented safety bicycle. Date: 1897. Medium: engraving. Collection: Brown University Library. La bicycliste, 1897