Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

'A Lady of Quality in the Birth day Court Dress, Jany. 18, 1808' NPG D47510

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by John Bell, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine

Described in the issue for January 1808:
The Most Splendid and Elegant Court-Dress. A white satin petticoat, covered with gold spangle scaling, ornamented round the bottom and draperies, with a deep border of white velvet, embroidered in an elegant pattern of gold; and finished with a rich fringe of the same. Body and train of purple velvet, trimmed with a similar fringe; pocket-holes ornamented with a rich gold cord and tassels. Crescent stomacher of gold mosaic, finished with a splendid diamond brooch; front of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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