'Evening Full Dress', January 1812 Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Evening Full Dress', January 1812 NPG D47551

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by John Bell, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine

Described in the issue for December 1811:
A white or pearl colour gossamer satin gown, with a demi-train; fancy apron of the same; the bottom of the gown and round the apron trimmed with a rich gold fringe of the Brandenburgh kind. A cap in the Persian form, of white satin, with ornaments of gold to correspond with the dress; two gold tassels depending over the left ear, and the same side the head is adorned with a plume of white ostrich feathers, and one... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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