Ball or evening dress, 1839 Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Ball or evening dress, 1839 NPG D47754

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum

Described in the magazine:
Dress à l’Antique of black velvet. The corsage is low à pointe, and with five rouleaux or folds going entirely round the bosom of the dress (see both figures in plate). The black sleeves are very short, quite tight, and sloped up to a point in front (see plate); underneath appears a short full satin sleeve forming a puff (à l’Antique) at the opening of the black one; this sleeve is tightened round the lower part of the arm with a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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