Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Fashions'. Summer toilet and morning dress, June 1862 NPG D47996

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Réville, published by Samuel Orchart Beeton, published in The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, first published in Le Moniteur de la Mode, after Jules David

Described in the magazine:
Summer Toilet. - The bonnet is made of straw, embroidered in black, with a soft white silk crown, and is trimmed with tiny green silk ruches. The curtain is of embroidered straw, edged with green ruches; and the bandeau consists of a large rose, bordered on each side by a bow of velvet. The dress is made of the fashionable material called mousseline-de-soie, in white, with tiny green sprigs. It is arranged with a low body, cut square, over which a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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