'Head Dresses', October 1828 Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Head Dresses', October 1828 NPG D47620

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, &c

Described in the magazine:
1. Cap of white crèpe lisse, the border very broad, vandyked and edged with scarlet braiding; in a deep puff on the left temple a cardinal flower is placed; the border touches the forehead in front, takes a retrograde direction and rises high on the right side, and is sustained with another branch of the cardinal flower: the head-piece is bound with scarlet satin.
2. Toque of Parisian gauze of a pale Pomona green, folded very deep and standing up... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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