Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'The Fashions'. Summer toilet, July 1861 NPG D47990

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Laurent François Guerdet, published by Samuel Orchart Beeton, published in The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, first published in Le Moniteur de la Mode, after Jules David

Described in the magazine:
1. Summer Toilet. - The bonnet, of white crêpe, is trimmed with a bunch of white feathers tipped with mauve, placed on the top of the bonnet, with mauve-coloured flowers for the bandeau, and very broad plain white strings. The mantle, of black silk, is trimmed with three broad lace flounces, and is worn very much off the shoulders. Each row of lace is headed by silk ruches, five inches of dark mauve and five inches of light mauve alternately, to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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