'Evening Dress', April 1828 Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Evening Dress', April 1828 NPG D47612

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, &c

Described in the magazine:
Dress of giraffe-colour tiffany, painted in waving columns of fancy flowers, and crossed, diagonally by lines of Ionian gray. The waist is long, and the upper part of the body full, terminating in a point in front: the ceinture, bound with satin cord, is attached to it, and partakes of the form of a diamond, the longitudinal corners continuing round the waist in a broad band. The sleeves are of white crèpe lisse, long and full, confined at the wrist by... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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