Promenade and carriage costume, April 1842 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Promenade and carriage costume, April 1842 NPG D47892
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by Dobbs & Co, published in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum, first published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes
Described in the magazine:
1st Figure - Redingotte of gros d'été, of a lilac or light mauve color. It is made quite high in the neck; corsage à pointe, and tight to the bust, with a revers en pelerine. The revers goes across the back of the corsage, comes over the shoulders as low as the putting-in of the sleeve, where it forms a kind of epaulette, being very deep, and is then sloped off, until it comes quite to a point, at the point... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










