Grand dinner or evening dress, August 1839 Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Grand dinner or evening dress, August 1839 NPG D47762

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Dobbs & Co, published in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum

Described in the magazine:
Dress of pink, poux de soie, shot with white glacé de blanc. Corsage à pointe, the front in three pieces, and ornamented with a Berthe en guipure. This species of tucker goes round the back of the corsage, and forms the coeur in front. Short sleeves, plain at the shoulder, and cut à la Venetienne, with the exception that the lower corner is rounded off instead of being pointed, and that it does not quite cover the elbow; it is trimmed... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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