'Evening Costume', May 1828 Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'Evening Costume', May 1828 NPG D47611
© National Portrait Gallery, London
published by Rudolph Ackermann, published in The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, &c
Described in the magazine:
Dress of cherry-colour crape ariophane, worn over a white satin slip. The body is of cherry-colour satin, made to the form and rather tight, pointed in front, and edged with cord: it is trimmed with longitudinal folds of crape ariophane, ornamented with three cruciform bows of cherry-colour satin ribbon; the back is trimmed in the same manner, and is rather low. Melon sleeves of white crape ariophane, set in a rose-colour satin band, with a projecting pointed leaf rising from the... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










