Details of dress, 1839 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Details of dress, 1839 NPG D47771
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum
Top centre bust, marked No. 3, and lower one marked the same. Blonde cap à la paysanne, trimmed with yellow ribbons. The form of this cap will be best seen by the lower bust; the head-piece is deep, in the style of the mob cap, and is sufficiently sloped away in front to make it sit far off the brow; the cawl is round and rather small, and gathered all round. The border, which is of blonde, becomes deep at the sides of the face,... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










