'Morning Dress', summer 1835 Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Morning Dress', summer 1835 NPG D47676

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by G. Henderson, published in The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music and Romance

The same figure (reversed) appears in a plate in The Lady's Magazine and Museum in June 1835, from which it was probably copied, with a description:
Toilette d'Interieur; or Morning Dress. Dress of white muslin, embroidered in coloured worsteds; the pattern, rose-buds; worn over a pale pink under-dress of gros de Naples. The corsage is tight, and has draperies à la Sévigné put on (see plate). The sleeves above the elbow are excessively full; but from the elbow to the wrist are gathered into plaits,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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