Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Mrs Maclean) NPG 1953

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Daniel Maclise

The emphasis on breadth in female dress continued into the early 1830s. The poet and novelist Letitia Landon wears 'Donna Maria' sleeves on her satin dress; full to the elbow and then tight to the wrist. The bodice pleats converge on a fashionable buckled belt. Her tucker, worn inside the neckline, is edged with a lace ruff while a frill in the popular 'van Dyck' style extends over the shoulders. Her full, gathered skirt would have been worn to the ankle. Landon wears her hair... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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