Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Morning Dress. Afternoon Costume', October 1828 NPG D47622

© National Portrait Gallery, London

probably by William Read, published by George Byrom Whittaker, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine

Described in the magazine:
Morning Dress. This costume is a petticoat of fawn coloured gros de Naples, with a very broad hem at the border, headed by an embroidery of Pomona-green floize silk, in a Greek pattern. A canezou-spencer of white muslin is worn with it, richly embroidered in stripes formed of satin-stitch raised spots. The body is drawn, but not very full, and a falling-cape collar falls over it, at the throat, of plain India muslin, trimmed round with two rows of lace. The... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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