'Evening Dresses', March 1829 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Evening Dresses', March 1829 NPG D47654
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by George Byrom Whittaker, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine
Described in the magazine:
Evening Party Full Dress. Over white satin, a superb dress of blond, figured in diamond checquers, the stripes forming them representing the most delicate foliage. One broad flounce of blond, of a very rich pattern, ornaments the border, and is finished by a narrow full head. The body made quite plain, and confined by a cordelière, formed of balls of silk woven in the most ingenious and elegant manner; the ends, which fall as low as the head of the flounce,... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










