Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'Home Costume', October 1826 NPG D47577

© National Portrait Gallery, London

probably by William Read, published by George Byrom Whittaker, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine

Described in the issue for October 1826:
Over an under garment of India muslin, of the most delicate texture, is worn an elegant déshabille robe of celestial blue, or of sea-green taffety, without sleeves. The body is made in the Circassian style, and discovers that of the muslin dress underneath plaited en chemisette, with a quilling of thread-tulle next the throat: the sleeves are of white muslin, and fastened at the wrists with broad bracelets, enriched with cameos and valuable gems; there are no other... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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