Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dinner dress and home morning dress, March 1842 NPG D47891

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Dobbs & Co, published in The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine and Museum, first published in Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des Modes

Described in the magazine:
Standing figure - Dress of black crape worn over black satin. Corsage low in the neck, à pointe, and with draperies cut in the corsage. It has a seam down the centre of the front, and fits quite tight with the exception of the drapery. The sleeves are remarkably short, and perfectly tight to the arm, with rosettes or choux of black crape on the outside of the arm. The skirt has four very deep tucks, including the hem. Fanchon (or... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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